Creating a web-based digital photographic archive: one hospital library's experience.
Background: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a nonprofit community hospital based in Los Angeles. Its history spans over 100 years, and its growth and development from the merging of 2 Jewish hospitals, Mount Sinai and Cedars of Lebanon, is also part of the history of Los Angeles. The medical library...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Medical Library Association Vol. 105; no. 2; pp. 155 - 160 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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University of Pittsburgh, University Library System
Apr2017
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