Information seeking behaviour of library users at Metropolitan College of New York

Reference Services Review

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 643-653

  Mavodza, Judith ^a  

^a Metropolitan College of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Collaboration; Database usage statistics; Information retrieval; Information seeking behaviour; Library users; United States of America; User studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 81455135272     PISSN: 00907324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00907321111186668     Document Type: Review

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