Performance evaluation for university electronic libraries in Taiwan

Electronic Library

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 212-224

  Hsieh, Ling Feng ^a   Chin, Jiung Bin ^b   Wu, Mu Chen ^b  

^a CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b HUNGKUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Delphi method; Performance measures; Taiwan; University libraries

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PERFORMANCE;

DELPHI METHOD; ELECTRONIC LIBRARIES; PERFORMANCE MEASURES; UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 33745845145     PISSN: 02640473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02640470610660387     Document Type: Article

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