eGovernment services use and impact through public libraries: Preliminary findings from a national study of public access computing in public libraries

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Fisher, Karen E ^a   Becker, Samantha ^a   Crandall, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDY ANALYSIS; E-GOVERNMENT; E-GOVERNMENT SERVICES; FIELD STUDIES; IMPACT STUDY; INTERNET ACCESS; MIXED METHOD; PUBLIC ACCESS; PUBLIC ACCESS COMPUTING; PUBLIC LIBRARY; SERVICE PROVIDER; TELEPHONE SURVEY; WEB SURVEYS; WIRELESS INTERNET;

GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; INTERNET; SURVEYS;

LIBRARIES;

EID: 77951707038     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2010.451     Document Type: Conference Paper

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