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“Libraries have also been charged with the responsibility of disseminating information and providing access to relevant information services based on the needs of local community constituencies (Rayward, 1994;Abbott, 1988).”
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“The technology here operates less as a capability or potential to be 'colonized' by different professional groups (Abbott, 1988) than as an institutional actor in its own right, with designs upon the control which established professions exert over key tasks.”
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- Abbott, A.
- Corresponding author
- Abbott, Andrew
- ORCID
- Abbott, Andrew
- Venue
- University of Chicago Press eBooks
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- University of Chicago Press
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- 1988
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- professions, professional systems, professionalization
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