Oral documents in concept and in situ, part I: Grounding an exploration of orality and information behavior

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 852-863

  Turner, Deborah ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

Document management; Documents; Face to face communication; Information behaviour; Oral documents; Properties of documentary practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867731812     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220411211277073     Document Type: Article

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