Pairing information with poverty: Traces of development discourse in LIS

New Library World

Volumn 107, Issue , 2006, Pages 371-385

  Haider, Jutta ^a   Bawden, David ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Information exchange; Information science; Libraries

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749049390     PISSN: 03074803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074800610702570     Document Type: Article

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