The reference interview through asynchronous e-mail and synchronous interactive reference: Does it save the time of the interviewee?

Internet Reference Services Quarterly

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 23-34

  Taher, Mohamed ^a  

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Author keywords

Asynchronous e mail reference; Internet; Live reference; Ranganathan s Five Laws of Library Science; Reference interview; Synchronous interactive reference

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905599360     PISSN: 10875301     EISSN: 15404749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J136v07n03_04     Document Type: Article

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