Profiling African libraries: Automation in Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria

Library Review

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 25-35

  Garcha, Rajinder ^a   Buttlar, Lois J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computers; Ghana; Information systems; Kenya; Libraries; Nigeria

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986079120     PISSN: 00242535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00242539610125640     Document Type: Article

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