What users want: Assessing government information preferences to drive information services

Government Information Quarterly

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 203-218

  Burroughs, Jennie M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Data driven decision making; FDLP; Government information; Information policy; Use study; User survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 56949084086     PISSN: 0740624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2008.06.003     Document Type: Article

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