Libraries and student persistence at southern colleges and universities

Reference Services Review

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 266-279

  Teske, Boris ^a   DiCarlo, Michael ^a   Cahoy, Dexter ^b  

^a LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Louisiana Tech University   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Data analysis; Higher education; Outcomes; Performance measures; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879160750     PISSN: 00907324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00907321311326174     Document Type: Article

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