Save the time of the Avatar: Canadian academic libraries using chat reference in multi-user virtual environments

Reference Librarian

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 12-30

  Buckland, Amy ^a   Godfrey, Krista ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Online; Presence; Reference; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951583521     PISSN: 02763877     EISSN: 15411117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02763870903389319     Document Type: Article

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