Location-based questions and their implications for digital reference consortia

Bishop, Bradley Wade

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Title

Location-based questions and their implications for digital reference consortia

Author(s)

Bishop, Bradley Wade

Issue Date

2010-02-03

Keyword(s)

• Digital reference
• location-based questions
• consortia

Date of Ingest

2010-02-27T17:04:28Z

Abstract

This poster addresses a lack of knowledge about location-based questions and the implications of this lack of knowledge on digital reference consortia. Location-based questions include any question that concerns the attributes of a georeferenceable location or locations. Findings indicate half of questions asked to the statewide service of this study were location-based questions. Recommendations from this study’s findings include populating the consortium’s knowledge base with local knowledge, especially participating information agencies local knowledge.

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Conference Poster

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