Academic medical librarians in Malaysia: What roles do they play?

Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 83-96

  Santra, Namita ^a  

^a Wisma MCIS Annexe   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Evidence based librarianship; Health sciences librarians; Malaysia; Medical librarianship; Roles of librarians

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548497402     PISSN: 13946234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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