Twenty years of the literature on acquiring out-of-print materials

Acquisitions Librarian

Volumn 14, Issue 27, 2002, Pages 109-119

  Overmier, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Out of print books

Indexed keywords

EID: 24344456818     PISSN: 08963576     EISSN: 1544435X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J101v14n27_13     Document Type: Article

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