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Students' information-seeking intention in academic digital libraries

The purpose of this research is to examine students' information-seeking intention regarding academic digital library services guiding by the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) and Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). Data was collected among students in a public higher learning institution in Feder...

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Main Authors: Faeizah Salim, Bavani Saigar, Pravin Kumar Armoham, Sarasvathy Gobalakrishnan, Yen, Michelle Pin Jap, Nurul Akidah Azmaya Lim
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Language:English
Published: IGI Global 2016
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LB Theory and practice of education
Online Access:https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/20078/1/Students%20information-seeking%20intention%20in%20academic%20digital%20libraries.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/20078/
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0746-8.ch017
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spelling my.ums.eprints.200782018-05-21T05:26:56Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/20078/ Students' information-seeking intention in academic digital libraries Faeizah Salim Bavani Saigar Pravin Kumar Armoham Sarasvathy Gobalakrishnan Yen, Michelle Pin Jap Nurul Akidah Azmaya Lim LB Theory and practice of education The purpose of this research is to examine students' information-seeking intention regarding academic digital library services guiding by the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) and Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). Data was collected among students in a public higher learning institution in Federal Territory of Labuan Malaysia. The empirical result of the hierarchical regression had confirmed that students' intention to seek for information in digital library was influenced mainly by their attitude, implying that, in predicting the information-seeking intention in an academic digital library with TPB was much better than TRA. The findings of the research provide broader insights for the academic digital libraries to be more aware of the important factors that influence library users in seeking for information and fulfil their requirement. A new motion can be developed by using the result of this research, which improve the knowledge from previous studies via the assessment from TPB. IGI Global 2016 Book Chapter NonPeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/20078/1/Students%20information-seeking%20intention%20in%20academic%20digital%20libraries.pdf Faeizah Salim and Bavani Saigar and Pravin Kumar Armoham and Sarasvathy Gobalakrishnan and Yen, Michelle Pin Jap and Nurul Akidah Azmaya Lim (2016) Students' information-seeking intention in academic digital libraries. Handbook of Research on Leveraging Consumer Psychology for Effective Customer Engagement. pp. 259-273. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0746-8.ch017
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spellingShingle LB Theory and practice of education
Faeizah Salim
Bavani Saigar
Pravin Kumar Armoham
Sarasvathy Gobalakrishnan
Yen, Michelle Pin Jap
Nurul Akidah Azmaya Lim
Students' information-seeking intention in academic digital libraries
description The purpose of this research is to examine students' information-seeking intention regarding academic digital library services guiding by the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) and Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). Data was collected among students in a public higher learning institution in Federal Territory of Labuan Malaysia. The empirical result of the hierarchical regression had confirmed that students' intention to seek for information in digital library was influenced mainly by their attitude, implying that, in predicting the information-seeking intention in an academic digital library with TPB was much better than TRA. The findings of the research provide broader insights for the academic digital libraries to be more aware of the important factors that influence library users in seeking for information and fulfil their requirement. A new motion can be developed by using the result of this research, which improve the knowledge from previous studies via the assessment from TPB.
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author Faeizah Salim
Bavani Saigar
Pravin Kumar Armoham
Sarasvathy Gobalakrishnan
Yen, Michelle Pin Jap
Nurul Akidah Azmaya Lim
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Bavani Saigar
Pravin Kumar Armoham
Sarasvathy Gobalakrishnan
Yen, Michelle Pin Jap
Nurul Akidah Azmaya Lim
author_sort Faeizah Salim
title Students' information-seeking intention in academic digital libraries
title_short Students' information-seeking intention in academic digital libraries
title_full Students' information-seeking intention in academic digital libraries
title_fullStr Students' information-seeking intention in academic digital libraries
title_full_unstemmed Students' information-seeking intention in academic digital libraries
title_sort students' information-seeking intention in academic digital libraries
publisher IGI Global
publishDate 2016
url https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/20078/1/Students%20information-seeking%20intention%20in%20academic%20digital%20libraries.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/20078/
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0746-8.ch017
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