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Designing Academic Libraries for the 21st century: Issues of Accessibility and Usability
Bostick,L.Sharon; Petrie,Helen
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Year:
2009
Editor:
Chakrabarti, A.
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Section:
Human Factors, Aesthetics, Semantics, ans Semiotics
Page(s):
313-320
Abstract:
Academic libraries in the 21st century face many challenges to meet the changing needs of students and staff. This paper discusses the problems of designing the accessibility and usability of the physical spaces,collections and services of modern academic libraries. Existing guidelines for accessibility and usability of libraries are presented and critiqued
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