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Public library
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A public library is a library that is accessible by the general public and is generally funded from public sources, such as taxes. It is operated by…
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Bibliothèque municipale de Nancy
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Review
2010
Review
2010
Selection Bias in Web Surveys
J. Bethlehem
2010
Corpus ID: 56390402
At first sight, web surveys seem to be an interesting and attractive means of data collection. They provide simple, cheap, and…
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Review
2010
Review
2010
The Internet, Public Libraries, and the Digital Divide
Bo Kinney
Public Library Quarterly
2010
Corpus ID: 205491522
Virtually every public library in the United States provides public access Internet computers as a role central to its mission…
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Do libraries matter? Public libraries and the creation of social capital
Andreas Vårheim
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S. Steinmo
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E. Ide
J. Documentation
2008
Corpus ID: 206369804
Purpose – Librarians and the library profession keep repeating that libraries contribute greatly to generating social capital by…
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
The Impact of firms’ capital expenditure on working capital management : an empirical study across industries in Thailand
B. A. R. Appuhami
2008
Corpus ID: 154748441
[Abstract] The purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of firms' capital expenditure on their working capital…
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Mission
Pete Chvany
2005
Corpus ID: 216133930
SUMMARY Longtime bisexual male activist pokes fun at stereotypes of bi men and women while revealing his own process of self…
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
The public library as a meeting-place in a multicultural and digital context: The necessity of low-intensive meeting-places
R. Audunson
J. Documentation
2005
Corpus ID: 31525384
Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to develop an improved conceptual framework for researching and discussing the public…
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
The Race for Talent: Retaining and Engaging Workers in the 21st Century
F. D. Frank
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Richard P. Finnegan
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Craig R. Taylor
2004
Corpus ID: 169743084
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Where the Action Is - The Foundations of Embodied Interaction
P. Dourish
2001
Corpus ID: 9747127
Computer science as an engineering discipline has been spectacularly successful. Yet it is also a philosophical enterprise in the…
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Review
2000
Review
2000
Theories of social exclusion and the public library
D. Muddiman
2000
Corpus ID: 38119276
“Social exclusion” has increasingly taken over from terms like poverty and deprivation as a term for describing social division…
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Focused Crawling: A New Approach to Topic-Specific Web Resource Discovery
Soumen Chakrabarti
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M. V. D. Berg
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B. Dom
Comput. Networks
1999
Corpus ID: 206134284
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