Electronic pathfinders in academic libraries: an analysis of their content and form

dc.contributor.author	Dahl, Candice
dc.date.accessioned	2007-10-24T22:26:31Z
dc.date.available	2007-10-24T22:26:31Z
dc.date.issued	2001
dc.description.abstract	Forty-five electronic pathfinders were selected from nine Canadian university libraries to assess their degree of conformity to suggested guidelines in the existing literature about pathfinders. The content and the format of the chosen pathfinders were assessed in terms of consistency and scope. Also considered were overall readability and whether they were effectively constructed to be used as starting points for further research. The analysis revealed that the guidelines were not uniformly followed, leaving some pathfinders more complex and less useful than others. Further, it demonstrated that specific guidelines must be created for electronic pathfinders because they pose particular problems that are not addressed in the current literature about pathfinders in general.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	College & Research Libraries 62(3), May 2001, pp. 227-237	en_US
dc.identifier.other	http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crljournal/2001/may01/dahl.pdf
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10388/42
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Association of College & Research Libraries	en_US
dc.title	Electronic pathfinders in academic libraries: an analysis of their content and form	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US
dc.type	Refereed Paper

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