Assessing information literacy skills in the Technological Education Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece

Reference Services Review

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 340-354

  Korobili, Stella ^a   Malliari, Aphrodite ^a   Christodoulou, George N ^a  

^a ATEI of Thessaloniki ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Assessment; Information literacy; Library instruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350136592     PISSN: 00907324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00907320910982820     Document Type: Article

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