Finding the right balance: Campus involvement in the collections allocation process

Library Collections, Acquisition and Technical Services

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 421-433

  German, Lisa B ^a   Schmidt, Karen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Allocation formula; Budget allocation; Collection development

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012037815     PISSN: 14649055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1464-9055(01)00219-6     Document Type: Article

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