Diversity collection assessment in large academic libraries

Collection Building

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 154-161

  Ciszek, Matthew P ^a   Young, Courtney L ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Collections management; Equal opportunities; Resources; University libraries

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049519982     PISSN: 01604953     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01604951011088899     Document Type: Article

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