What Is Business Information Literacy and Can the Corporate Librarian Contribute Anything to the Discourse?

Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 146-174

  Natt, Avtar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

business information literacy; business school librarian; corporate librarian; higher education; information literacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876011435     PISSN: 08963568     EISSN: 15470644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08963568.2013.769290     Document Type: Article

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