Measuring the impact of cultural diversity on desired mobile reference services

Reference Services Review

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 299-308

  Hudson, Alexia ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Mobile communication systems; National cultures; Reference services; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952196878     PISSN: 00907324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00907321011045052     Document Type: Article

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