Librarians wanted: a staff development program designed to solve recruiting woes

Library Management

Volumn 24, Issue , 2003, Pages 229-236

  Engel, Debra ^a   Huang, Jie ^b   Reiss, Fred ^b  

^a Director of Public Services   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Manpower planning; Recruitment; University libraries

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986145191     PISSN: 01435124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01435120310475329     Document Type: Article

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