Communicating with faculty, staff, and students using library blogs: Results from a survey of academic health sciences libraries

Internet Reference Services Quarterly

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 149-168

  Chatfield, Amy J ^a   Ratajeski, Melissa A ^b   Wang, John ^a   Bardyn, Tania P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic health; Blogs; Newsletters; Sciences libraries; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956406052     PISSN: 10875301     EISSN: 15404749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10875301.2010.502452     Document Type: Article

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