Academic library websites?: Balancing university guidelines with user needs

Journal of Web Librarianship

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 57-69

  Lombard, Emmett ^a   Hite, Lesley A ^a  

^a GANNON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Likert scale; Page templates; Survey; University guidelines; User satisfaction; Web administration

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009585759     PISSN: 19322909     EISSN: 19322917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J502v01n02_04     Document Type: Article

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