Situating information literacy in the disciplines: A practical and systematic approach for academic librarians

Reference Services Review

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 319-340

  Farrell, Robert ^a   Badke, William ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Disciplinary faculty; Information literacy; Library instruction west; Situated learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930582867     PISSN: 00907324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/RSR-11-2014-0052     Document Type: Article

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