The new black bag: Pdas, health care and library services

Reference Services Review

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 229-238

  Shipman, Jean P ^a   Morton, Andrew C ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer hardware; Health care; Information resources management; Library services

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986178261     PISSN: 00907324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000005661     Document Type: Article

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