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Enhancing Digital Information Access in Public Libraries

Ayers, Kathleen and Liu, Yan Quan (2006) Enhancing Digital Information Access in Public Libraries. In Grove, Andrew, Eds. Proceedings 69th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) 43, Austin (US).

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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.

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.
ID Code:8500
Deposited By:Medeiros, Norm
Deposited On:16 January 2007
All fields:Show all fields

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