To tag or not to tag?

Library Hi Tech

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 411-434

  Thomas, Marliese ^a   Caudle, Dana M ^a   Schmitz, Cecilia M ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data collection; Tagging

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350306405     PISSN: 07378831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/07378830910988540     Document Type: Article

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