Digital reference triage: Factors influencing question routing and assignment

Library Quarterly

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 103-120

  Pomerantz, Jeffrey ^a   Nicholson, Scott ^a   Lankes, R David ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0037985615     PISSN: 00242519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/603392     Document Type: Article

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