Structure and action: Towards a new concept of the information use environment

Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting

Volumn 33, Issue , 1996, Pages 152-156

  Rosenbaum, Howard ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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