Information resources used by children at an English secondary school: Perceived and actual levels of usefulness

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 340-358

  Madden, Andrew D ^a   Ford, Nigel J ^a   Miller, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children (age groups); England; Information literacy; Information research; Information retrieval; Secondary schools

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247329757     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410710743289     Document Type: Article

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