Librarian perspectives on teaching metasearch and federated search technologies

Internet Reference Services Quarterly

Volumn 12, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 253-278

  Lampert, Lynn ^a,b   Dabbour, Katherine S ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ACRL ^*

Author keywords

Assessment; Federated searching; Information literacy; Instruction; Metasearch

Indexed keywords

EID: 34948818730     PISSN: 10875301     EISSN: 15404749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J136v12n03_02     Document Type: Article

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