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	Title:	Reaching beyond the reference books in public libraries
	Author:	Ann Curry
	Address:	Associate Professor and Chair of Doctoral Studies Program, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, The University of British Columbia, 301 6190 Agronomy Road, Vancouver, V6T 1Z3, BC, Canada
	Journal:	International Journal of Web Based Communities 2005 - Vol. 1, No.4  pp. 450 - 463
	Abstract:	An analysis of the URLs from transaction logs obtained from the public access terminals in four Canadian cities revealed that customers accessed a wide variety of web-based communities devoted to diverse subjects. This paper argues that public library reference librarians should include more web-based communities in the sources that they recommend to customers.
	Keywords:	virtual community; World Wide Web; internet; public libraries; information seeking; reference services; web based communities.
	DOI:	10.1504/IJWBC.2005.008110
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