Barriers to information seeking in school libraries: Conflicts in perceptions and practice

Information Research

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Meyers, Eric M ^a   Nathan, Lisa P ^a   Saxton, Matthew L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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