The impact of automation on job requirements and qualifications for catalogers and reference librarians in academic libraries

Library Resources and Technical Services

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 9-31

  Xu, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 0030504958     PISSN: 00242527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/lrts.40n1.9     Document Type: Article

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