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Flaherty, Mary Grace – Library Quarterly, 2013
To better understand health information provision in the public library setting, two cooperative library systems that serve primarily rural populations in upstate New York were studied. The central library in one of those systems established a consumer health information center (CHIC) in 1999. In the other system, the central library does not have…
Descriptors: Library Services, Public Libraries, Printed Materials, Library Personnel
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Bradley, Jana; Fulton, Bruce; Helm, Marlene – Library Quarterly, 2012
The number of books published by authors using fee-based publication services, such as Lulu and AuthorHouse, is overtaking the number of books published by mainstream publishers, according to Bowker's 2009 annual data. Little empirical research exists on self-published books. This article presents the results of an investigation of a random sample…
Descriptors: Writing for Publication, Personal Autonomy, Fees, Empowerment