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Encounters with the OPAC: on-line searching in public libraries

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Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Volume 51, Issue 8

Pages 757 - 773

Published: 01 May 2000 Publication History

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Journal of the American Society for Information Science Volume 51, Issue 8

May 2000

96 pages

ISSN:0002-8231

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Donald H. Kraft
Lousiana State Univ., Baton Rouge

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