The Library Collection Failure Quotient: The Ratio of Interlibrary Borrowing to Collection Size

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 159-170

  Henderson, Albert ^a  

^a Publishing Research Quarterly   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/S0099-1333(00)00102-6     Document Type: Article

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