Abstract:

Adopting TOE (Technology-Organization-Environment) framework, the paper studies potential barriers to the integration of Blackboard and library resources and services (hereinafter referred to as “the integration”). The result of survey shows that the lacks of support from education authorities, of strategic planning on the part of schools, of incentives mechanism and evaluation system are main obstacles to the integration. In order to remove the barriers, the paper proposes the combination of “technology-systemcounterpart”.

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