Age and exposure to computers as determinants of attitudes of librarians towards automation in Nigerian universities

Library Review

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 495-504

  Osahon Uwaifo, Stephen ^a  

^a DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Automation; Computers; Librarians; Nigeria; Universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547633698     PISSN: 00242535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00242530710760391     Document Type: Article

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