Beyond boolean, towards thinking: Discovery systems and information literacy

Library Management

Volumn 33, Issue 8-9, 2012, Pages 450-457

  Cmor, Dianne ^a   li, Xin ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Critical thinking; Discovery services; Emergent strategy; Information literacy; Information strategy; Learning outcomes; Library instruction; Summon; Web scale discovery systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867695901     PISSN: 01435124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01435121211279812     Document Type: Article

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