Is digitization sufficient for collective remembering? Access to and use of cultural heritage collections

Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science

Volumn 30, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 201-220

  Mallan, Katrine ^a   Park, Eun ^b  

^a Citizenship and Immigration Canada   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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