The economic value of book borrowing from public libraries: An optimisation model

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 662-682

  Sumsion, John ^a   Hawkins, Margaret ^a   Morris, Anne ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Books; Borrowing; Modelling; Public libraries; Value analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036433636     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410210448200     Document Type: Article

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