Collaborate or die! Collection development in today’s academic library

Cooperative Reference: Social Interaction in the Workplace

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 219-236

  Tucker, James Cory ^a   Bullian, Jeremy ^b   Torrence, Matthew C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b HILLSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Case studies; Collaboration; Collection development; Liaison

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920713125     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203725696     Document Type: Chapter

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