Successful students: does the library make a difference?

Performance Measurement and Metrics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 140-144

  de Jager, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Service quality; University libraries

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986043542     PISSN: 14678047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14678040210453564     Document Type: Review

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