To maintain the standard, design and structure of Indian academic library websites, it is highly recommended for regular assessment of library web portals to increase their usability and accessibility. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the usability, efficiency, and effectiveness of selected central universities libraries websites of North East India. On the basis of the present study, it is found that most of selected central universities libraries websites of North-Eastern region of India were ignoring their usability features and there is numerous scope of further improvement in terms of applications of Web 2.0 tools, web searching features, library committee, website update, website map, website multilingual option, etc.
Literature ReviewMany studies have been already conducted in this area, but few of them were selected for the present study. Silva M, Wijayaratne I studied on University of Colombo library website through usability testing technique and post-test questionnaire and found that usefulness of the library website was 86.69% while efficiency was 1.35 minutes/task and overall users were very satisfied on the library website. 7 Hasan L in his study on University of Jordan website found
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