Crashing the Facebook party One library's experiences in the students' domain

Library Review

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 228-236

  Graham, Jamie M ^a   Faix, Allison ^a   Hartman, Lisa ^a  

^a Wall College of Business   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Internet; Social networks; Students

Indexed keywords

EID: 69949168902     PISSN: 00242535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00242530910942072     Document Type: Article

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