Implementation of the Finnish University Libraries National Information Literacy Recommendation into academic studies at the Kumpula Science Library, University of Helsinki

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Volumn 111, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 493-502

  Kakkonen, Anne ^a   Virrankoski, Antti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Finland; Information literacy; Sciences; University libraries

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649254805     PISSN: 03074803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074801011094868     Document Type: Article

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