Leadership or management: Expectations for head of reference services in academic libraries

Reference Librarian

Volumn 39, Issue 81, 2003, Pages 105-117

  Unaeze, Felix E ^a  

^a CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

21st century; Effective leader; Leadership; Leadership skills; Leadership traits; Management; New millennium; Organization; Organizational effectiveness; Reference department head; Reference services

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013911662     PISSN: 02763877     EISSN: 15411117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J120v39n81_09     Document Type: Article

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