Enhancing Digital Information Access in Public Libraries

Ayers, Kathleen and Liu, Yan Quan Enhancing Digital Information Access in Public Libraries., 2006 . In 69th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), Austin (US), 3-8 November 2006. [Conference paper]

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English abstract

To explore the impact of public digital library resources on urban residents, to elucidate the current usage patterns of public digital library resources/services and levels of satisfaction with the resources/content in urban digital libraries and make recommendations as to steps that would improve service to this population.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: digital resources ; electronic resources ; public libraries
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BC. Information in society.
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HP. e-resources.
D. Libraries as physical collections. > DC. Public libraries.
Depositing user: Norm Medeiros
Date deposited: 16 Jan 2007
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:06
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/8845

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