Tribal College Library Web Sites: Provision of Health Information Sources

Abstract

Tribal colleges and universities (TCU) are institutions managed by Native American tribes and typically housed on reservations. This study evaluates the health information and general content of TCU library web sites. The web sites of the fifteen TCU offering programs in the health sciences were examined for representation of library services and information, research and reference tools, instruction tools, functionality and design, and health sciences information tools. The results were compared with previously published data for other kinds of academic libraries. Most TCU library web sites have a strong collection of library information and links to free research tools but lack instructional tools, but many need to update their sites more frequently and improve their organizational schemes

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