Conceptions of "information poverty" in LIS: A discourse analysis

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 534-557

  Haider, Jutta ^a   Bawden, David ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information science; Information society; Librarianship

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547162362     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410710759002     Document Type: Article

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