Stepping stones to synergy: Social Q&A and virtual reference [ASIST 2011 panel]

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 48, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Radford, Marie L ^a   Shah, Chirag ^a   Mon, Lorri ^b   Gazan, Rich ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital reference; Human information seeking; Online Q A, user studies; Question answering; Social question answering (SQA); Virtual reference (VR)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861444271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15508390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.2011.14504801047     Document Type: Conference Paper

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