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crl-15313	Brown, Cecelia M.	Information Literacy of Physical Science Graduate Students in the Information Age	1999-09-01	13	.pdf	application/pdf	7664	315	48	Information Literacy of Physical Science Graduate Students in the Information Age Cecelia M. Brown This article reports on findings from a survey exploring the information literacy of physical science graduate students. Cecelia M. Brown is an Assistant Professor and the Chemistry–Mathematics Librarian at the University of Oklahoma; e-mail: cbrown@ou.edu. 426 mailto:cbrown@ou.edu Information Literacy of Physical Science Graduate Students 427 Background The 1989 report from the ALA’s Presiden­ tial Committee on Information Literacy defines an information-literate person as one who “must be able to recognize when information is needed and have the abil­ ity to locate, evaluate, and effectively use the needed information.”1	cache/crl-15313.pdf	txt/crl-15313.txt