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The questionnaire survey applies the SERVQUAL instrument to three Chinese university libraries, with a view to examining the SERVQUAL score in light of epistemological considerations; the interview survey interviews 50 faculty users in one of the three universities with a view to illuminating the naturalistic process through which users develop their judgement of the library's service quality and through which the SERVQUAL score is formed.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>The study shows that the actual SERVQUAL score is distributed in a very scattered manner in all three libraries, and that it is formed through a very complex process rooted primarily in the user's personal experiences with the library, which are in turn shaped by factors from both the library world and the user's life\u2010world. Based on these findings, this research questions a number of SERVQUAL assumptions and proposes three concepts which may help to contextualise the SERVQUAL score and enhance its utility in actual library assessment: library planning based variance of user perception, perception\u2010dependent user expectation and library\u2010sophistication based user differentiation.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>The research presented in the paper questions a number of SERVQUAL assumptions and proposes three concepts that may help to contextualise the SERVQUAL score and enhance its utility in actual library assessment.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/00220410810884066","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2008,8,16]],"date-time":"2008-08-16T07:36:33Z","timestamp":1218872193000},"page":"511-551","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":23,"title":["An epistemological critique of gap theory based library assessment: the case of SERVQUAL"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"64","author":[{"given":"Liangzhi","family":"Yu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Qiulan","family":"Hong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Song","family":"Gu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Yazun","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"key":"key2022032219425443000_b1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Andaleeb, S.S. and Simmonds, P.L. 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