Using standards to make your case: Examples from the medical library community

New Library World

Volumn 109, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 251-257

  Funk, Carla J ^a  

^a Medical Library Association   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Hospitals; Medical libraries; Standards; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 44449130931     PISSN: 03074803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074800810873597     Document Type: Article

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