Identification of competencies for professional staff of public libraries

Public Library Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 17-43

  Chaudhry, Abdus Sattar ^a   Yeen, Lee ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b National Library Board of Singapore   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Competencies; Modern library professional; Public librarian

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896100525     PISSN: 01616846     EISSN: 15411540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J118v20n01_04     Document Type: Article

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