Books are for use? Keeping the faith in reading

Acquisitions Librarian

Volumn 13, Issue 25, 2000, Pages 61-79

  Dwyer, Jim ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Bibliographers; Bookstores; Popular collections; Reader s advisory; Reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011107546     PISSN: 08963576     EISSN: 1544435X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J101v13n25_06     Document Type: Article

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