Bridging information requirements and information needs assessment: Do scenarios and vignettes provide a link?

Information Research

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2001, Pages

  Urquhart, Christine ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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