Mediacy: What it is? Where to go?

International Information and Library Review

Volumn 29, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 403-413

  Inoue, Hitoshi ^a,b   Naito, Eisuku ^a,b   Koshizuka, Mika ^a,b  

^a National Institute of Informatics   (Japan)

^b American Library Association   (United States)

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EID: 0031232445     PISSN: 10572317     EISSN: 10959297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10572317.1997.10762448     Document Type: Article

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