Adoption of Web 2.0 in US academic libraries: A survey of ARL library websites

Program

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 365-375

  Mahmood, Khalid ^a   Richardson, John V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Internet; United States of America; Web 2.0; Web sites; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053294942     PISSN: 00330337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00330331111182085     Document Type: Review

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