Roadmap to change: Emerging roles for information professionals

Library Review

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 267-277

  Omekwu, Charles Obiora ^a   Eteng, Uwem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Information services; Librarians; Libraries; Organizational change

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645813622     PISSN: 00242535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00242530610660816     Document Type: Review

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