FOSTERING ROBUST LIBRARY PORTALS: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE McMASTER UNIVERSITY LIBRARY GATEWAY

47 leaves : ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 44-47). ; "June 2003"--Cover. A heartfelt thanks goes to Vivian Lewis (Business Librarian, Innis), Ines Perkovic (Reference Librarian, Innis), and Shelia Pepper (Associate Librarian, Reader Services), all at Mc Master University, in providing the requisite background information necessary to conduct an assessment of the McMaster Gateway by the students of the Winter 2003 class of K726 Information Retrieval and Intelligent Agents.

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