Usability study of the mobile library App: an example from Chongqing University

Library Hi Tech

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 340-355

  Wei, Qunyi ^a   Chang, Zhaoxin ^a   Cheng, Qin ^a  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Evaluation; Mobile App; Mobile library; Mobile service; Usability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942080252     PISSN: 07378831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/LHT-05-2015-0047     Document Type: Article

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