Situated questions and answers: Responding to library users with QR codes

Reference and User Services Quarterly

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 60-69

  Hicks, Alison ^a   Sinkinson, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 84865143282     PISSN: 10949054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/rusq.51n1.60     Document Type: Article

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