Academic Library Mission Statements, Web Sites, and Communicating Purpose

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 592-596

  Salisbury, Preston ^a   Griffis, Matthew R ^b  

^a Hinds Community College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Library management; Marketing; Mission statement; Web sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84913595785     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2014.07.012     Document Type: Article

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