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The Effects Of Classification Systems On Management And Access In Selected Elementary School Libraries, Ellen L. Miller
The Effects Of Classification Systems On Management And Access In Selected Elementary School Libraries, Ellen L. Miller
Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education
Without an adequate access and delivery system for "easy" books, young children are locked out of the vast literary resources of elementary school libraries. The research described in this dissertation was conducted for the purpose of investigating the extent to which a variation in classification systems corresponded to variations in management and access. Elm's Classification System and H. W. Wilson's "E" classification for "easy" books were the two systems involved in the study.
In the spring of 1985, a questionnaire was mailed to 38 librarians in the public school systems in four cities in the Tidewater Area of Virginia--Chesapeake, Norfolk, …