Facilitating community information seeking using the internet: Findings from three public library-community network systems

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 894-903

  Pettigrew, Karen E ^a   Durrance, Joan C ^b   Unruh, Kenton T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERNET; ONLINE SEARCHING; QUALITY OF SERVICE; USER INTERFACES;

HUMAN SERVICE PROVIDERS; INFORMATION COMMUNITY; INFORMATION SEEKING; ONLINE COMMUNITY NETWORK; ONLINE SURVEYS; PUBLIC LIBRARY;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 0036731822     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.10120     Document Type: Article

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