Annoyance or Delight? College Students’ Perspectives on Looking for Information

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 380-390

  Denison, Denise R ^a,b   Montgomery, Diane ^b  

^a Oklahoma Wesleyan University   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

College students; Information literacy; Information seeking behaviors; Perceptions of information; Q methodology; Triarchic Theory of Intelligence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866512975     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2012.08.007     Document Type: Article

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