Primarily history: Historians and the search for primary source materials

Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 1-10

  Tibbo, Helen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Archives; Historians; Historical research; Information seeking behavior; Manuscript repositories; Primary resources; Users

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE EDUCATION; HISTORY; HTML; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ARCHIVES; DIGITAL ACCESS; PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIALS;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 0036997441     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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