The nuts, bolts, and teaching opportunities of real-time reference

College and Undergraduate Libraries

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 63-85

  Taddeo, Laura ^a   Hackenberg, Jill M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Chat reference; Digital reference; Information literacy; Library instruction; Online reference; Real time reference; Virtual reference

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750424973     PISSN: 10691316     EISSN: 15452530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J106v13n03_05     Document Type: Review

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