Document (#11334)

Author

Bates, M.J.

Title

¬The nature of browsing

Source

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333872380_The_Nature_of_Browsing

Year

2019

Abstract

The recent article by McKay et al. on browsing (2019) provides a valuable addition to the empirical literature of information science on this topic, and I read the descriptions of the various browsing cases with interest. However, the authors refer to my article on browsing (Bates, 2007) in ways that do not make sense to me and which do not at all conform to what I actually said.

Content

Bezug (Letter to the editor) zu: McKay, D., Chang, S.,, Smith, W., Buchanan, G.: The things we talk about when we talk about browsing: an empirical typology of library browsing behavior. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (2019).

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