Yielding to Persuasion: Library Data’s Hazardous Surfaces

Library Data: Empowering Practice and Persuasion

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3-16

  Brooks Kieffer, Jamene ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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