Lessons from the academy: Actuating active mass-class information literacy instruction

Reference Services Review

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-38

  Chalmers, Mardi ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bibliographies; Information literacy; Libraries; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 39449101489     PISSN: 00907324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00907320810852005     Document Type: Review

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