Local economic development in Uganda and the connection to rural community libraries and literacy

New Library World

Volumn 108, Issue , 2007, Pages 203-217

  Dent, Valeda Frances ^a  

^a Hunter College Libraries   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classification; Indexing; Thesauri

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EID: 34249744371     PISSN: 03074803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074800710748777     Document Type: Article

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