Seeing is believing: Disparity of books in two los angeles area public libraries

Public Library Quarterly

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 31-36

  Di Loreto, Christina ^a   Tse, Lucy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Book access; Children; Public library; Reading; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

EID: 71949084057     PISSN: 01616846     EISSN: 15411540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J118v17n03_03     Document Type: Article

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