Why discovery tools and information literacy are not enough: Reconnecting with reference sources
Abstract
A student once said to me, “You’re like an information wizard” after I placed a just-right reference source in her hands. In truth, I hadn’t done anything extraordinary. I did only what thousands of reference librarians have been trained to do for decades.
Copyright Trina J. Magi
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