The use of Social Networking Sites (SNSs) by the faculty members of the School of Library & Information Science, PAAET, Kuwait

Electronic Library

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 524-546

  Mansour, Essam A H ^a  

^a Public Authority for Applied Education and Training   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Community colleges; Faculty members; Higher education; Library and information sciences; Social media; Social networking sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930347668     PISSN: 02640473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EL-06-2013-0110     Document Type: Article

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