Information literacy on Facebook: An analysis

Reference Services Review

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 242-257

  Witek, Donna ^a   Grettano, Teresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Facebook; Information literacy; Instruction; Social media; Social networking; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860864380     PISSN: 00907324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00907321211228309     Document Type: Article

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