Competing agendas in higher education: Finding a place for information literacy

Reference and User Services Quarterly

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 53-62

  Snavely, Loanne ^a   Cooper, Natasha ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LYCOMING COLLEGE   (United States)

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