Libraries in schools: Essential contexts for studying organizational change and culture

Library Trends

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 9-25

  Oberg, Dianne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Faculty Advisor of Online MEd Program   (Canada)

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