Evaluating online real-time reference in an academic library: Obstacles and recommendations

Reference Librarian

Volumn 38, Issue 79-80, 2003, Pages 225-240

  Ronan, Jana ^a   Reakes, Patrick ^a   Cornwell, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chat; Evaluation; Obstacles; Real time; Reference; Synchronous

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010575510     PISSN: 02763877     EISSN: 15411117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J120v38n79_15     Document Type: Article

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