The social life of digital reference: What the technology affords

Digital Versus Non-Digital Reference: Ask a Librarian Online and Offline

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 127-138

  Sen Roy, Mita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Affordance; Digital reference; Reference service; Virtual reference

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905631138     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1300/J120v41n85_10     Document Type: Chapter

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