Toward sustaining professional development: Identifying essential competencies for chat reference service

Library and Information Science Research

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 298-311

  Luo, Lili ^a  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 55749114757     PISSN: 07408188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lisr.2008.02.009     Document Type: Article

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