Making information literacy relevant

Library Review

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 165-174

  Shenton, Andrew K ^a   Fitzgibbons, Megan ^b  

^a Monkseaton High School   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Information literacy; Learning styles; Motivation (psychology); Youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949564975     PISSN: 00242535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00242531011031151     Document Type: Article

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