Developing a collaborative faculty-librarian information literacy assessment project

Library Review

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 68-91

  Belanger, Jackie ^a   Bliquez, Rebecca ^a   Mondal, Sharleen ^a  

^a ASHLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Assessment; Collaboration; Higher education; Information literacy; Library instruction; United States of America; Universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857969460     PISSN: 00242535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00242531211220726     Document Type: Article

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