Just collaboration or really something else? On joint use libraries and normative institutional change with two examples from Sweden

Library Trends

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 549-568

  Hansson, Joacim ^a  

^a Swedish School of Library and Information Science   (Sweden)

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EID: 33745655816     PISSN: 00242594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lib.2006.0035     Document Type: Review

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