Relevant repositories of public knowledge? Libraries, museums and archives in 'the information age'

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 89-98

  Usherwood, Bob ^a,b   Wilson, Kerry ^b   Bryson, Jared ^a  

^a Department of Librarianship ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archives; Libraries; Museums; Relevance; Trust; Value

Indexed keywords

EID: 23444458234     PISSN: 09610006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961000605055357     Document Type: Article

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