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What Does it Take to Make Discovery a Success?: A Survey of Discovery Tool Adoption, Instruction, and Evaluation Among Academic Libraries

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Pages 85-104 | Received 14 Oct 2016, Accepted 16 Jan 2017, Published online: 22 Feb 2017

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