From the Classroom to the Boardroom: The Impact of Information Literacy Instruction on Workplace Research Skills
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https://doi.org/10.26443/el.v34i2.308Abstract
Since the wide-scale adoption of the ACRL Information Literacy Standards (2000), there have been numerous students who have graduated from universities that have formal library instruction programs. Currently there has been very little assessment of their post-graduate research skills or what role information literacy plays on workplace performance. [...]References
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