Promotion and Evaluation of a Virtual Live Reference Service

Medical Reference Services Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 41-56

  McGraw, Kathleen A ^a   Heiland, Jennifer ^a   Harris, Julianna C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b National Library of Medicine ^*

Author keywords

Real time online reference; Synchronous online reference; Virtual reference

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTRONICS; EVALUATION; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; LIBRARY; MEDICAL SCHOOL; VIRTUAL REALITY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER NETWORK; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; HUMANS; INTERNET; LIBRARIES, MEDICAL; LIBRARY SERVICES; NORTH CAROLINA; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0037642203     PISSN: 02763869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J115v22n02_04     Document Type: Article

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