Approach or avoidance? the role of nonverbal communication in the academic library user's decision to initiate a reference encounter

Library Trends

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 699-717

  Radford, Marie L ^a  

^a PRATT INSTITUTE   (United States)

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