An exploration into the practices of library web usability in ARL academic libraries

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 953-968

  Chen, Yu Hui ^a   Germain, Carol Anne ^a   Yang, Huahai ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC LIBRARIES; ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES; DESIGN STAGE; PUBLIC ACCESS; RESPONSE RATE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; USABILITY TESTING; WEB USABILITY;

SURVEYS;

LIBRARIES;

EID: 65649154637     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21032     Document Type: Article

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