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Information literacy: a framework for higher education

Christine Susan Bruce Christine Bruce is a lecturer in the School of Information Systems at the Queensland University of Technology. She has published widely on various aspects of information literacy and is particularly interested in developing higher education curricula that ensure students learn to be information literate. She developed Griffith University's Information Literacy Blueprint, of which the theoretical framework presented here is the first part.
Pages 158-170 | Received 01 Feb 1995, Published online: 28 Oct 2013

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