Twitter use in libraries: An exploratory analysis

Journal of Web Librarianship

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 333-350

  Aharony, Noa ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Content analysis; Descriptive analysis; Microblogging; Public libraries; Social networking; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649962552     PISSN: 19322909     EISSN: 19322917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19322909.2010.487766     Document Type: Article

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