Museum object as document: Using Buckland's information concepts to understand museum experiences

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 45-71

  Latham, Kiersten F ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Document; Document handling; Michael Buckland; Museum objects; Museums; Reader response; Semiotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855784477     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220411211200329     Document Type: Article

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