document: The necessity of real-time-fact and fiction in digital reference systems Current discussions and trends in digital reference have emphasized the use of real-time digital reference services . Recent articles have questioned both the utility and use of asynchronous services such as e-mail . This article uses data from the AskERIC digital reference service to demonstrate that asynchronous services are not only useful and used , but may have greater utility than real-time systems
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