Adjusting to the workplace: Transitions faced by new academic librarians

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 252-266

  Oud, Joanne ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 45949099281     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl.69.3.252     Document Type: Article

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21. All statistical tests used assume significance at less than p=.05.
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