Public library and users' lifestyle in a changing context

Performance Measurement and Metrics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 197-210

  Nagata, Haruki ^a   Sakai, Kanako ^b   Kawai, Tetsuya ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPING ECONOMIES   (Japan)

^c TFC Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Japan; Lifestyles; Public libraries; User studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 49949119588     PISSN: 14678047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14678040710841072     Document Type: Article

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