Educating and training library practitioners: A comparative history with trends and recommendations

Library Trends

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 467-504

  Wilson, Anthony M ^a   Hermanson, Robert ^a  

^a Highline Community College   (United States)

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