Building and sustaining a culture of assessment: Best practices for change leadership

Reference Services Review

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 13-31

  Farkas, Meredith Gorran ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Assessment; Change leadership; Change management; Organizational culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874148914     PISSN: 00907324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00907321311300857     Document Type: Article

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