Value, impact, and the transcendent library: Progress and pressures in performance measurement and evaluation

Library Quarterly

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 111-125

  Town, J Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 79951779124     PISSN: 00242519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/657445     Document Type: Article

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