Applying RUSA guidelines in the analysis of chat reference transcripts

College and Undergraduate Libraries

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 75-88

  Zhuo, Fu ^a   Love, Mark ^a   Norwood, Scott ^a   Massia, Karla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Chat; Evaluation; Reference; Virtual

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746596672     PISSN: 10691316     EISSN: 15452530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J106v13n01_09     Document Type: Review

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