Measuring impact and outcome of libraries

Performance Measurement and Metrics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-12

  Poll, Roswitha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Information technology; Library management; Literature; Performance measurement; University libraries

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986132994     PISSN: 14678047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14678040310471202     Document Type: Article

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