What do the conceptions of geo/spatial information tell us about information literacy?

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 334-354

  Nazari, Maryam ^a   Webber, Sheila ^b  

^a Iranian Research Institute for Scientific Information and Documentation   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distance learning; Geographic information systems; Information exchange; Information literacy; Internet; Knowledge sharing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952294433     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220411111109502     Document Type: Article

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