Information literacy assessment: Where do we start?

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 19-28

  Walsh, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment; Higher education; Information literacy; Information skills; Learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 60449090318     PISSN: 09610006     EISSN: 17416477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961000608099896     Document Type: Article

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