Usability evaluation of digital libraries

Science and Technology Libraries

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 39-59

  Buttenfield, Barbara ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; LIBRARIES;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; DOUBLE LOOP PARADIGM; SELF-REFERRING ANALYSIS;

INFORMATION SERVICES;

EID: 0032677569     PISSN: 0194262X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J122v17n03_04     Document Type: Article

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