LIS professionals and knowledge management: Some recent perspectives

Library Management

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 621-635

  Sarrafzadeh, Maryam ^a,b   Martin, Bill ^a   Hazeri, Afsaneh ^a,c  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b PERSIAN GULF UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c YAZD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Information profession; Information science; Knowledge management

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750996417     PISSN: 01435124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01435120610715527     Document Type: Article

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