Faculty Perspectives on Information Literacy as a Student Learning Outcome

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 226-236

  Saunders, Laura ^a  

^a SIMMONS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Faculty; Information literacy; Library instruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863997123     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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