Focus groups: Their use in LIS research data collection

Education for Information

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 225-232

  Kerslake, Evelyn ^a   Goulding, Anne ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH;

FOCUS GROUPS; LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE (LIS); RESEARCH DATA COLLECTION;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 0030264042     PISSN: 01678329     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/EFI-1996-14305     Document Type: Article

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