Recent views on identifying impacts from public libraries

Public Library Quarterly

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 3-29

  Abend, Jennifer ^a   McClure, Charles R ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic impacts; Measuring impacts; Public libraries

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001856636     PISSN: 01616846     EISSN: 15411540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J118v17n03_02     Document Type: Article

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