Something old, something new: Preliminary findings from an exploratory study about people's information habits and information grounds

Information Research

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Fisher, Karen ^a   Naumer, Charles ^a   Durrance, Joan ^b   Stromski, Lynn ^c   Christiansen, Torben ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c United Way of King County ^*  (United States)

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