Once you get them, how do you keep them? Millennial librarians at work

New Library World

Volumn 111, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 391-398

  Gordon, Shannon ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Human resource management; Jobs; Librarians; Recruitment; Workplace training

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957358104     PISSN: 03074803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074801011089314     Document Type: Review

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