Socially grounded user studies in digital library development

First Monday

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2000, Pages

  Bishop, Ann Peterson ^a   Mehra, Bharat ^a   Bazzell, Imani ^b,c   Smith, Cynthia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b SisterNet   (United States)

^c Parkland College   (United States)

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EID: 0013088285     PISSN: 13960466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v5i6.760     Document Type: Article

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