The Internet and reference services: A real-world test of internet utility

Reference and User Services Quarterly

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 165-172

  Zumalt, Joseph R ^b   Pasicznyuk, Robert W ^a  

^a Acute Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services   (United States)

^b NONE

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