Evaluating and comparing discovery tools: How close are we towards next generation catalog?

Library Hi Tech

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 690-709

  Yang, Sharon Q ^a   Wagner, Kurt ^b  

^a RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Function evaluation; Libraries; Online cataloguing; Open systems; User interfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649770970     PISSN: 07378831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/07378831011096312     Document Type: Article

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