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Assessing digital libraries: Evaluation strategies, practices, and issues

✍ Scribed by John Carlo Bertot; Charles R. McClure; William E. Moen

Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Weight: 106 KB
Volume: 41
Category: Article
ISSN: 0044-7870
DOI: 10.1002/meet.1450410175

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✦ Synopsis

These libraries can include online databases, e-books, digitized collections, and services such as digital reference. The panel identifies evaluation strategies, methods, and issues that assist developers and researchers assess the extent to which such libraries meet stated goals and objectives and user information needs. In particular, the panel presents fmdings from studies conducted by the authors with the Florida Electronic Library and Library of Texas initiatives.

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