The vital few meet the trivial many: Unexpected use patterns in a monographs collection

Bulletin of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 496-503

  Eldredge, Jonathan D ^a,b,c  

^a Collections and Info Rsrc Devmt ^*

^b School of Medicine

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH SCIENCE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE;

BOOKS; LIBRARIES, MEDICAL; LIBRARY COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT; NEW MEXICO; PENNSYLVANIA; RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031753328     PISSN: 00257338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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