Collection Inventory in a Canadian Academic Dentistry Library.
Introduction: Collection inventories are time consuming but necessary to clean up catalogue records and improve access and retrieval. This article outlines the methods of carrying out an inventory project at the Dentistry Library, University of Toronto, for the first time in 16 years. As a result, a...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association (JCHLA) Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 123 - 127 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Canadian Health Libraries Association
Dec2012
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