Information literacy skills among female students in Kuwaiti high schools

Library Review

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 607-616

  ur Rehman, Sajjad ^a   Alfaresi, Sumayyah ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Information literacy; Kuwait; Library users; Secondary schools

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349655756     PISSN: 00242535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00242530910987091     Document Type: Article

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