Katina's baby: The Charleston Acquisitions Conference at 15

Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 281-299

  Boissonnas, Christian M ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisitions; Charleston; Conferences; Continuing Education; Evaluation; Professional Development; SC

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750490109     PISSN: 03646408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0364-6408(96)00049-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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12. See in particular: Sullivan, Maureen, Ed. Developing Library Staff for the 21st Century. New York: Haworth, 1992. 112 pp.;
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27. All statistics relating to Charleston in this paper are derived from the information given to participants at each meeting, supplemented by information available in the files of the Center of Continuing Education of the College of Charleston. I am indebted to Dorinda Harmon of the Center, who manages the conferences, for making this information available to me.
28. Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia.
29. Includes systems vendors in 1993. I did not notice that there were any in the other years of this table.
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