Social networking tools for academic libraries

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 64-75

  Chu, Samuel Kai Wah ^a   Du, Helen S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b MACAU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Macao)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Facebook; instant messaging; MySpace; Social networking; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874557845     PISSN: 09610006     EISSN: 17416477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961000611434361     Document Type: Article

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