The contribution of public libraries to countries' economic productivity: A path analysis

Library Review

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 435-441

  Liu, Lewis G ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Information society; Public libraries; Reading; School libraries

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992933559     PISSN: 00242535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00242530410565210     Document Type: Article

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