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portal: Libraries and the Academy

Volume 1, Number 2, April 2001

E-ISSN: 1530-7131 Print ISSN: 1531-2542

DOI: 10.1353/pla.2001.0020

Hughes, Carol Ann.
The Myth of "Obsolescence": the Monograph in the Digital Library
portal: Libraries and the Academy - Volume 1, Number 2, April 2001, pp. 113-119

The Johns Hopkins University Press

This article will attempt to address some traditional assumptions librarians have made about the use of monographic collections. In the course of exploring these assumptions, a more subtly nuanced articulation of library collection use may emerge, which could lead to a new appreciation of the need to ensure that information access is designed specifically to support a wide variety of uses.


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