A Vision for the Future of Academic Library Collections.
Given that roughly 40% of academic library book holdings go unread over a 5-10 year period after publication, there is a need to reengineer current acquisitions strategies. The large number of books that remain unused represents a financial drain on acquisitions budgets, which make libraries more vu...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of the Book Vol. 4; no. 4; pp. 185 - 190 |
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Common Ground Research Networks
2007
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