Percentage based allocation of an academic library materials budget

Collection Building

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 30-34

  Smith, Debbi A ^a  

^a ADELPHI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Budgets; Collections management; Information media

Indexed keywords

EID: 38149082789     PISSN: 01604953     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01604950810846224     Document Type: Article

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