Cataloguing Men: Charting the Male Librarian's Experience through the Perceptions and Positions of Men in Libraries

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 286-295

  Hickey, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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EID: 33646785428     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2006.02.009     Document Type: Article

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