Digital Ethnography: Library web page redesign among digital natives

Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 97-110

  Klare, Diane ^a   Hobbs, Kendall ^a  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Ethnography; User studies; Web page design

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959251857     PISSN: 1941126X     EISSN: 19411278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1941126X.2011.576946     Document Type: Article

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