Understanding the millennials: Updating our knowledge about students

Reference Services Review

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 356-366

  Holliday, Wendy ^a   Qin, Q ^b  

^a Utah State Libraries   (United States)

^b Utah State Libraries ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Information facilities; Information retrieval; Research; Undergraduates; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992996437     PISSN: 00907324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00907320410569707     Document Type: Review

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