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Overcoming Language Barriers on Library Websites: Challenges and Opportunities

He, Shaoyi

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Title
Overcoming Language Barriers on Library Websites: Challenges and Opportunities
Author(s)
He, Shaoyi
Issue Date
2009-02-08
Keyword(s)
  • language Barriers
  • Library Websites
  • Multilingual Websites
  • Multilingual User Interfaces
  • Online Machine Translation
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the issues related to language barriers on library websites, focusing on the websites of the 50 state libraries and the library websites of the top 50 cities in the United States. The opportunities as well as challenges brought up by language barriers are also discussed with an emphasis on multilingual access to the contents and services provided on the library websites. Future research directions are outlined with some recommendations for conducting a content analysis on multilingual access to library websites in a larger scale.
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text
Language
en
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