The common user interface in academic libraries: myth or reality?

Library Hi Tech

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 63-76

  Arant, Wendi ^a   Payne, Leila ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Information retrieval; Interfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242557834     PISSN: 07378831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/07378830110384601     Document Type: Article

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