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Are Malaysian students ready to be authors of digital contents? a case study of digital library stakeholders readiness

The paper reports on a study that ascertains the factors facilitating students to utilize digital libraries for educational purposes. The study investigates students ICT readiness, usage of online resources and information seeking behaviour of secondary school students with the specific goal of appl...

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Main Authors: Abrizah, Abdullah, Zainab, Awang Ngah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2007
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Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources
Online Access:http://eprints.um.edu.my/6158/1/Are_Malaysia_Students_Ready_to_be_Authors_of_Digital_Contents_A_Case_Study_of_Digital_Library_Stakeholder%27s_Readiness.pdf
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spelling my.um.eprints.61582019-12-06T09:22:51Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/6158/ Are Malaysian students ready to be authors of digital contents? a case study of digital library stakeholders readiness Abrizah, Abdullah Zainab, Awang Ngah Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources The paper reports on a study that ascertains the factors facilitating students to utilize digital libraries for educational purposes. The study investigates students ICT readiness, usage of online resources and information seeking behaviour of secondary school students with the specific goal of applying the results to the design of a collaborative digital library for school projects. The digital library has been conceived to support resource needs of these students as well provide the space for them to publish their school projects, which are currently submitted handwritten. The study uses the case study approach and an urban secondary school in Malaysia is chosen as the case school. Findings from a survey and focus group interviews indicate that the students are ready to collaboratively build the digital library resources as evidenced by students digital library readiness score of 31.4/40. 2007 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.um.edu.my/6158/1/Are_Malaysia_Students_Ready_to_be_Authors_of_Digital_Contents_A_Case_Study_of_Digital_Library_Stakeholder%27s_Readiness.pdf Abrizah, Abdullah and Zainab, Awang Ngah (2007) Are Malaysian students ready to be authors of digital contents? a case study of digital library stakeholders readiness. Journal of Educational Media & Library Sciences, 45 (1). ISSN 1013-090X http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/169
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topic Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources
spellingShingle Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources
Abrizah, Abdullah
Zainab, Awang Ngah
Are Malaysian students ready to be authors of digital contents? a case study of digital library stakeholders readiness
description The paper reports on a study that ascertains the factors facilitating students to utilize digital libraries for educational purposes. The study investigates students ICT readiness, usage of online resources and information seeking behaviour of secondary school students with the specific goal of applying the results to the design of a collaborative digital library for school projects. The digital library has been conceived to support resource needs of these students as well provide the space for them to publish their school projects, which are currently submitted handwritten. The study uses the case study approach and an urban secondary school in Malaysia is chosen as the case school. Findings from a survey and focus group interviews indicate that the students are ready to collaboratively build the digital library resources as evidenced by students digital library readiness score of 31.4/40.
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author Abrizah, Abdullah
Zainab, Awang Ngah
author_facet Abrizah, Abdullah
Zainab, Awang Ngah
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title Are Malaysian students ready to be authors of digital contents? a case study of digital library stakeholders readiness
title_short Are Malaysian students ready to be authors of digital contents? a case study of digital library stakeholders readiness
title_full Are Malaysian students ready to be authors of digital contents? a case study of digital library stakeholders readiness
title_fullStr Are Malaysian students ready to be authors of digital contents? a case study of digital library stakeholders readiness
title_full_unstemmed Are Malaysian students ready to be authors of digital contents? a case study of digital library stakeholders readiness
title_sort are malaysian students ready to be authors of digital contents? a case study of digital library stakeholders readiness
publishDate 2007
url http://eprints.um.edu.my/6158/1/Are_Malaysia_Students_Ready_to_be_Authors_of_Digital_Contents_A_Case_Study_of_Digital_Library_Stakeholder%27s_Readiness.pdf
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