A paper that has hypothetically illustrated the need for the digital libraries in modern learning environments primarily because of their reach effectiveness in the dwindling physical space available. In essence, the utilization of digital libraries in Saudi Arabia has opened more room for research thus ensuring that students are properly informed while compiling academic content. It further focused on the positive impacts as well as the negative to illustrate the needs to further improve the said digital space. To date the Saudi Digital Library fondly called to locals as SDL has revolutionized researching inside the kingdom making it at par with other first world countries in spite of late coming.
Medical information is generally stored in medical libraries serving as repository of scientific studies for health benefits. This study is centered on revisiting the anthology of literature on the rise of medical libraries across time and space. The study argues that the field of medical libraries grew in series of time and various spaces across region of the world. The study adopted the qualitative design to look into the historical development of medical libraries across time and space with emphasis on the deductive method from the global, regional to local perspectives. It deals on exploration, description, and interpretation of events and abstract concepts on the rise of medical library brought by technology. The study also pointed the role of Saudi Arabia in the field of Medical Library services that is substantially improving due to government funding and as aided by latest technology envisioning Saudi Arabia as a major power house in medical research in the future.
This paper seeks to determine the choice of information source among FCMS nursing interns using the three-dimensional evaluation method namely; reliability, accessibly and purpose between the traditional and digital resources. Appropriate cross tabulations were used in the study to present the results using actual numbers, percentages and means. The results showed that there is no significant difference on the perception among respondents with regard to reliability, accessibility and purpose of the traditional and digital sources of information albeit that digital resource has just been recently introduced in the kingdom. Furthermore, the study also presented the respondent's perception on the relationship of the two sources of information, specifically books and the Internet. The respondents mostly answered "highly accepted" as indicated by the high averages with a mean score nearly 5.
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