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A Research Based Framework for Developing Information Literacy Projects

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Book cover Worldwide Commonalities and Challenges in Information Literacy Research and Practice (ECIL 2013)

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This paper presents a model for the evaluation of users’ needs adapted to the conditions of a developing country that has access to traditional literature and great potential for exploiting available sources on Internet, but does not yet have documentary or bibliographic database access.

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  1. Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, Romania

    Angela Repanovici & Diana Cotoros

  2. Bergen University, Bergen, Norway

    Ane Landoy

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  1. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. University of California Los Angeles, USA

    Esther Grassian  & Diane Mizrachi  & 

  3. University of Stirling, UK

    Ralph Catts

  4. University of Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

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Repanovici, A., Cotoros, D., Landoy, A. (2013). A Research Based Framework for Developing Information Literacy Projects. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Catts, R., Špiranec, S. (eds) Worldwide Commonalities and Challenges in Information Literacy Research and Practice. ECIL 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 397. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03919-0_45

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