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Rethinking the accidental profession

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William N. Dunn is a professor in the School of Library and Information Science and in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, both at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also editor-and-chief ofKnowledge in Society: An International Journal of Knowledge Transfer.

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Dunn, W.N. Rethinking the accidental profession. Book Research Quarterly 3, 22–27 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02683610

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