Assessing freshman library skills and attitudes before program development: One library's experience

College and Undergraduate Libraries

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 29-49

  Helmke, Jonathan ^a,b   Matthies, Brad S ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BUTLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Benchmarking; Campus culture; Freshmen; Information literacy; Library services; Marketing; Pre instruction assessment; Skills; Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006419095     PISSN: 10691316     EISSN: 15452530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J106v11n02_03     Document Type: Article

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