What can we learn from performance assessment?: The system and practice in an academic library

Library Management

Volumn 27, Issue 6-7, 2006, Pages 460-469

  Pan, Junlin ^a   Li, Guoqing ^b  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Administration; Assessment; Librarians; Management effectiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746650602     PISSN: 01435124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01435120610702440     Document Type: Article

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