Research activities and UK public libraries: Past imperfect, future tense?

Library Management

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 459-468

  Goodall, Deborah ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Public libraries; Research; UK

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986009700     PISSN: 01435124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01435129810239958     Document Type: Article

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