Public library computer training for older adults to access high-quality Internet health information
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Public library computer training for older adults to access high-quality Internet health information.
An innovative experiment to develop and evaluate a public library computer training program to teach older adults to access and use high-quality Internet health information involved a productive collaboration among public libraries, the National Institute on Aging and the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and a Library and Information Science (LIS) academi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Library & Information Science Research
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0740-8188
DOI: 10.1016/j.lisr.2009.03.004