Facebook as a social search engine and the implications for libraries in the twenty-first century

Library Hi Tech

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 540-556

  Scale, Mark Shane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Libraries; Search engines

Indexed keywords

EID: 59949096903     PISSN: 07378831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/07378830810920888     Document Type: Article

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