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Opportunities and Challenges for Technology Development and Adoption in Public Libraries

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Opportunities and Challenges for Technology Development and Adoption in Public Libraries. / Serholt, Sofia; Eriksson, Eva ; Dalsgaard, Peter et al.

NordiCHI '18: 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. USA : Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. p. 311-322.

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Serholt, S, Eriksson, E , Dalsgaard, P, Bats, R & Ducros, A 2018, Opportunities and Challenges for Technology Development and Adoption in Public Libraries. in NordiCHI '18: 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, USA, pp. 311-322. https://doi.org/10.1145/3240167.3240198

APA

Serholt, S., Eriksson, E., Dalsgaard, P., Bats, R., & Ducros, A. (2018). Opportunities and Challenges for Technology Development and Adoption in Public Libraries. In NordiCHI '18: 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 311-322). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3240167.3240198

CBE

Serholt S, Eriksson E , Dalsgaard P, Bats R, Ducros A. 2018. Opportunities and Challenges for Technology Development and Adoption in Public Libraries. In NordiCHI '18: 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 311-322. https://doi.org/10.1145/3240167.3240198

MLA

Serholt, Sofia et al. "Opportunities and Challenges for Technology Development and Adoption in Public Libraries". NordiCHI '18: 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. USA: Association for Computing Machinery. 2018, 311-322. https://doi.org/10.1145/3240167.3240198

Vancouver

Serholt S, Eriksson E , Dalsgaard P, Bats R, Ducros A. Opportunities and Challenges for Technology Development and Adoption in Public Libraries. In NordiCHI '18: 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. USA: Association for Computing Machinery. 2018. p. 311-322 doi: 10.1145/3240167.3240198

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Serholt, Sofia ; Eriksson, Eva ; Dalsgaard, Peter et al. / Opportunities and Challenges for Technology Development and Adoption in Public Libraries. NordiCHI '18: 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. USA : Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. pp. 311-322

Bibtex

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