Best Practices for Integrating E-books in Academic Libraries: A Literature Review From 2005 to Present

Collection Management

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 65-97

  Blummer, Barbara ^a   Kenton, Jeffrey ^b  

^a Center for Computing Sciences   (United States)

^b TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

academic institutions; acquisition; cataloging; colleges; e books; ebooks; electronic books; maintenance; online; practices; promoting; universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859737871     PISSN: 01462679     EISSN: 15452549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01462679.2012.660851     Document Type: Review

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