When a nursing student needs a journal article from a periodical that is not available in the holdings of the learning resource center, the student should
a. try to find a substitute article.
b. request an interlibrary loan.
c. go to the stacks and look again.
d. check the vertical file.
ANS: B
If the learning resource center (LRC) does not subscribe to a particular journal, a student may obtain a copy of the article by requesting that the LRC obtain a copy of the article from a cooperating library that subscribes to the journal. A substitute article would not provide identical information. The remaining options would not be productive.
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