COMMON SEARCH ERROR	SOLUTION
COPYING the FIRST LINE ONLY of a CALL NUMBER &/or LEAVING OUT the PUNCTUATION of a CALL NUMBER	COPY the ENTIRE CALL NUMBER including the LOCATION CODES "Ref" or Micro", ALL LETTERS DECIMALS, & NUMERALS in the ORDER THEY APPEAR
COPYING LAST NAME ONLY for an AUTHOR	WRITE ENTIRE NAME of AUTHOR & NAME(S) of JOINT AUTHOR(S)
MISSPELLING NAMES or TITLE WORDS	COPY NAMES EXACLTY AS PRINTED; TRY OTHER POSSIBLE SPELLINGS; ASK LIBRARIAN to VERIFY SPELLING
ABBREVIATING TLTLES or NOT KNOWING the FIRST WORD of the TITLE	COPY the TITLE EXACTLY as PRINTED or MEMORIZE the TITLE EXACTLY
MISREADING MAPS	STUDY HANDOUTS of LIBRARY FLOOR MAPS & TAKE TIME OUT to WALK AROUND the LIBRARY WHILE LOOKING at the MAP
ASSUMING WITHOUT VERIFYING THAT the LIBRARY HAS NOTHING ON YOUR TOPIC or that a BOOK is MISSING	AFTER FOLLOWING NORMAL SEARCH STRATEGY & FINDING NOTHING ASK A REFERENCE LIBRARIAN, BE SURE TO SAY WHAT YOU HAVE DONE SO FAR
NOT KNOWING HOW TO USE a LIBRARY TO FIND MATERIALS & THEREFORE NOT KNOWING WHAT KINDS of MATERIAL ARE IN LIBRARIES	TAKE TIME TO LEARN LIBRARY SYSTEMS BY SELF STUDY, LIBRARY TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES, ASKING REFERENCE LIBRARIANS TO ASSIST YOU
NOT K OWING THE LIBRARY of CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION MAIN CATEGORIES	STUDY & MEMORIZE THE 20 KNOWLEDGE DOMAINS USED by LC to ORGANIZE ALL KNOWLEDGE
CAUSES OF ERROR IN SEARCHING	CAUSES of SUCCESS in SEARCHING
INSUFFICIENT ATTENTION to DETAIL & ORDER	SYSTEMATIC & ORGANIZED APPROACH TO STUDY (adequate supplies, time schedule appropriate)
ILLEGIBLE HANDWRITING	CLEAR & SYSTEMATIC HANDWRITING (graphic writing)
RUSHING & TIME PRESSURE	CALM ATTITUDE & SCHEDULES ADEQUATE AMOUNT of SEARCH TIME
DOUBTING & PANICING	PROMPTING SELF WITH QUESTIONS & ASKING the REFERENCE LIBRARIAN
INSUFFICIENT MOTIVATION to be INNOVATIVE in INFORMATION-SEEKING	CONTINUOUS STRIVING to LEARN NEW INFORMATION SYSTEMS; DEVELOPING RANDOM ACCESS to ALPHA-NUMERIC SYSTEMS; NOTING CONCEPTS in READINGS & USING THEM as SUBJECT HEADINGS; etc. etc.

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