Is age an appropriate criterion for moving journals to storage?

Collection Management

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 63-76

  Ackerson, Linda G ^a  

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

Author keywords

Citation studies; Collection management; Interdisciplinary libraries; Obsolescence; Remote storage of journals; Science libraries; Use and age

Indexed keywords

EID: 10144249330     PISSN: 01462679     EISSN: 15452549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J105v26n03_07     Document Type: Article

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