Who says that old dogs cannot learn new tricks?: A survey of internet/web usage among seniors

New Library World

Volumn 107, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 332-345

  Juznic, Primoz ^a   Blazic, Maja ^a   Mercun, Tanja ^a   Plestenjak, Barbara ^a   Majcenovic, Darko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b National and University Library Ljubljana   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Elderly people; Information literacy; Internet; Public libraries; Slovenia

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746435753     PISSN: 03074803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074800610677308     Document Type: Article

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