Library Assessment: The way we have grown

Library Quarterly

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 7-25

  Heath, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

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EID: 79951787420     PISSN: 00242519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/657448     Document Type: Review

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