Using the contingent valuation method for dollar valuations of library services

Library Quarterly

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 437-458

  Hider, Philip ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 52249084556     PISSN: 00242519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/591180     Document Type: Article

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