Furthering understanding of information literacy through the social study of information poverty

Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 87-115

  Thompson, Kim M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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