Questions asked at the virtual and physical health sciences reference desk: How do they compare and what do they tell us?

Medical Reference Services Quarterly

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 11-23

  De Groote, Sandra L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Physical reference desk; Reference questions; Statistics; Virtual reference desk

Indexed keywords

E-MAIL; HEALTH SCIENCE; INTERNET; MEDLINE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

CHICAGO; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LIBRARIES, DIGITAL; LIBRARIES, MEDICAL; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 21344434552     PISSN: 02763869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J115v24n02_02     Document Type: Review

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