Understanding help seeking within the context of searching digital libraries

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 477-494

  Xie, Iris ^a   Cool, Colleen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DIGITAL COLLECTIONS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; GENERAL PUBLICS; HELP SEEKING; MULTIPLE FACTORS; MULTIPLE SOURCE; NEW YORK CITY;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 62549116604     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20988     Document Type: Article

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