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    July 12, 2007 by sachsd  
    Filed under About Virtual Reference

    Just some food for thought:

    John Kupersmith recently posted his great study on what users understand of library lingo. The full report is at, http://www.jkup.net/terms.html

    The study, finds the terms most often cited as being misunderstood or not understood by users:
    Acronyms & brand names
    Database
    Library Catalog
    E-journals
    Index
    Interlibrary Loan
    Periodical or Serial
    Reference
    Resource
    Subject categories
    such as Humanities
    or Social Science

    Comments?