Opening and closing rituals of the virtual reference service of the Internet Public Library

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 807-823

  Park, Jung ran ^a   Li, Guisu ^a   Burger, Amy ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet; Interpersonal communications; Public libraries; Reference services; Virtual organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049469553     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220411011087823     Document Type: Article

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