SMS text reference comes of age: The My Info Quest collaborative

Reference Librarian

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 264-275

  Jensen, Bruce ^a  

^a KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Consortia; Cooperative reference; SMS; Text messaging; Texting; Virtual reference

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957887146     PISSN: 02763877     EISSN: 15411117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02763877.2010.501418     Document Type: Article

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