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The Future of Reference and Information Service in the Public Library

Overview of attention for article published in The Library Quarterly, October 1978
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Title
The Future of Reference and Information Service in the Public Library
Published in
The Library Quarterly, October 1978
DOI 10.1086/600836
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 17%
Mexico 1 17%
United Kingdom 1 17%
Unknown 3 50%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Librarian 2 33%
Student > Master 2 33%
Student > Bachelor 1 17%
Researcher 1 17%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 4 67%
Arts and Humanities 1 17%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 November 2020.
All research outputs
#7,636,252
of 23,262,131 outputs
Outputs from The Library Quarterly
#98
of 373 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,377
of 5,878 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Library Quarterly
#1
of 1 outputs
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