Competencies for public library professionals in Malaysia

Public Library Quarterly

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 63-80

  ur Rehman, Sajjad ^a   Majid, Shaheen ^b   Abu Baker, Ahamd Bakeri ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Competencies; Information professionals; Knowledge competencies; Library professionals; Malaysia; Public libraries; Skill competencies

Indexed keywords

EID: 49949087482     PISSN: 01616846     EISSN: 15411540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J118v17n02_08     Document Type: Article

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