Public access technologies in public libraries: effects and implications.
Public libraries were early adopters of Internet-based technologies and have provided public access to the Internet and computers since the early 1990s. The landscape of public-access Internet and computing was substantially different in the 1990s as the World Wide Web was only in its initial develo...
| Publicado en: | Information Technology & Libraries Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 81 - 93 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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American Library Association
Jun2009
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