Perished or published: The fate of presentations from the ninth ACRL conference

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 517-525

  Fennewald, Joseph ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 29144477412     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl.66.6.517     Document Type: Conference Paper

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24. This count does not take into consideration the conference proceedings. The proceedings of the Ninth ACRL conference are not indexed by the databases used in this study. They appear in print and on the ACRL's Web site. The print version of the proceedings has fifty-one papers; the Web site has these and one additional paper.
25. My appreciation for the time and work done by Russell Hall, Perm State New Kensington; Shannon Richie, Perm State Hazleton; and, Robyn Rosenberg, Penn State Great Valley.
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