Are the economically poor Information poor? Does the digital divide affect the homeless and access to information?

Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 45-63

  Hersberger, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

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