Great Expectations: Or, Where Do They Get These Ideas?.

Smith, Kimberley Robles

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ERIC Number: EJ623518

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Publication Date: 2000

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Great Expectations: Or, Where Do They Get These Ideas?

Smith, Kimberley Robles

Reference & User Services Quarterly, v40 n1 p27-31 Fall 2000

Examines Web sites that are popular among college students to help understand what they expect of library research and online systems. Highlights include entertainment sites, including chat rooms and games; shopping; current topics; services; and library issues, including providing access and help, collection development, and organizing Web information. (LRW)

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Computer Games, Computer Uses in Education, Higher Education, Information Seeking, Library Collection Development, Library Services, Online Systems, Reference Services, User Needs (Information), World Wide Web

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Language: English

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