Democratic theory in library information science: Toward an emendation

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1483-1496

  Buschman, John ^a  

^a RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION; DEMOCRATIC THEORISTS; STATE-OF-THE-LITERATURE REVIEWS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 34547577704     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20634     Document Type: Article

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