Developing a model to provide digital reference services

Reference Services Review

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 172-189

  Stemper, James A ^a   Butler, John T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Information retrieval; Organizational change; Planning; Reference services

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986078110     PISSN: 00907324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00907320110398133     Document Type: Article

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