Examining Massive Digital Libraries (MDLs) and Their Impact on Reference Services

Reference Librarian

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 286-306

  Weiss, Andrew ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

digitization quality control; diversity; e books; Japanese language texts; Massive Digital Libraries; metadata; optical character recognition; reference services; Spanish language texts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961878165     PISSN: 02763877     EISSN: 15411117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02763877.2016.1145614     Document Type: Article

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