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Journal of Library Administration

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 25, 2025
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The Journal of Library Administration is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers library management. Established in 1980, the journal is published 8 times a year by Routledge. The editor-in-chief is Gary M. Pitkin, from the University of Northern Colorado.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Journal, Library and Administration can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Journal of Library Administration” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.