Let users judge the quality of faculty library services

New Library World

Volumn 102, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 314-324

  Snoj, Boris ^a   Petermanec, Zdenka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Library services; Marketing; Service levels; Service quality; Slovenia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986064618     PISSN: 03074803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074800110406196     Document Type: Article

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