Weeding book collections in the age of the Internet

Collection Building

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 113-119

  Banks, Julie ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Collection management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986159924     PISSN: 01604953     EISSN: 20545592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01604950210434542     Document Type: Article

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