The choice of librarianship as a career

Bello, M.A.

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“…While the emphasis is still on service delivery, librarianship is now promoted as a career which draws on information technology and librarians are referred to as cybarians -travellers in cyberspace. The majority of librarians in my study saw librarianship as a career and had made a positive choice to work in this area [33,34]. Differences between male and female responses were not significant, with 68 per cent of males and 61 per cent of females having chosen this reason.…”

Section: Choice Of a Careermentioning

confidence: 90%

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The “double‐glazed glass ceiling” in Australian libraries

Simon

1995

Women in Management Review

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Section: Choice Of a Careermentioning

confidence: 90%

“…The principles of public librarianship appeal to me. Information delivery, organization and administration (female, age group [31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40]respondent No. 198).…”

Section: Choice Of a Careermentioning

confidence: 99%