Virtual reference services for the academic health sciences librarian 2.0

Medical Reference Services Quarterly

Volumn 26, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages 25-49

  Cleveland, Ana D ^a   Philbrick, Jodi L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic health sciences libraries; Chat; E mail; Instant messaging; Virtual reference services; Web forms

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650076395     PISSN: 02763869     EISSN: 15409597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J115v26S01_03     Document Type: Article

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