Factors influencing undergraduate use of e-books: A mixed methods study

Potnis, Devendra; Deosthali, Kanchan; Zhu, Xiaohua; McCusker, Rebecca

doi:10.1016/j.lisr.2018.06.001

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“…A study of 279 undergraduate students at a Southern US university showed that among others factors, the quality of university IT infrastructure, perceived reading enjoyment, and interactive features played a significant role in influencing students' intention to read e-books [5].…”

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Perceptions and E-book Use Behavior of University Students

Majid¹,

Chenqin²,

Chang³

et al. 2019

IJDS

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In recent years, e-books have gained tremendous popularity due to many advantages associated with them. The main objective of this study was to investigate students' perceptions of e-books and their use behavior. The data was collected through an online questionnaire and 152 students from three public universities in Singapore participated in this study. Data analysis revealed that a majority of the students (73.7%) preferred using print books for their studies. However, a split response was recorded for research and leisure reading, where around 52% of the students preferred reading ebooks. The major advantages of e-books, as perceived by the students, were: the ability to store many e-books in personal devices, convenience of using e-books, and no need to go to a physical library. Some disadvantages associated with ebooks were: eye strain, poor quality of scanned ebooks, and small screen size of smartphones. Data analysis also revealed that many students were using e-books because no other choice was available to them. The finding of this study will be useful to academic libraries in developing more balanced and suitable library resources.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Perceptions and E-book Use Behavior of University Students

Majid¹,

Chenqin²,

Chang³

et al. 2019

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“…The researchers analyze the problem of service divide in academic libraries from an inwardlooking, service-provider perspective, since past research finds that organizational context is the primary influence in patrons' use of technology for meeting their needs. 19 The researchers argue that academic libraries should identify, analyze, and address their internal challenges to potentially reconcile this service divide in the future.…”

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Analyzing Service Divide in Academic Libraries for Better Serving Disabled Patrons Using Assistive Technologies

Potnis

Mallary²

2021

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Academic libraries invest thousands of dollars in assistive technologies (AT) for enhancing the delivery of information services to disabled patrons. However, offering AT might not result in their use by the patrons who need them, thereby leading to a service divide. The analysis of qualitative responses, including more than 1,400 quotations, elicited from academic library administrators and librarians in 186 public universities across the United States, reveals that academic libraries encounter 51 challenges related to the knowledge and skills of librarians, hardware and software concerns, institutional factors, finances, and external actors, when serving disabled patrons with AT. Finally, the researchers propose 15 solutions for bridging this service divide.

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“…Smartphones reduce the attention span of users (Zomorodi, 2017), which negatively affects reading habits and serves as one of the top-10 challenges faced by public libraries (Smith, 2019). Free access to electronic resources provided by libraries also does not necessarily lead to their use by patrons, leading to the underutilization of library resources and infrastructure (Potnis et al, 2018).…”

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“…In order to mitigate these challenges, public libraries need to design and implement new ways of serving patrons so that library services remain relevant to people with different levels of comfort with technology (Knight, 2017;Potnis et al, 2016Potnis et al, , 2018Wójcik, 2019b). However, increasing technologically minded and community-specific services would require public libraries to innovate.…”

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Best practices for managing innovations in public libraries in the USA

Potnis

Winberry

Finn

2020

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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Public libraries serve as anchors for thousands of communities across the United States. Innovations are critical for the survival and relevance of public libraries in the country. Few studies, if any, identify the best practices for managing innovations in public libraries based on the experiential guidance shared by administrators of public libraries that are recognized for their innovations. This empirical study fills in the gap by identifying the challenges and solutions for managing innovations in public libraries in the USA. A thematic content analysis of qualitative responses collected through an online anonymous survey of 219 administrators of 211 innovations in 106 urban public libraries awarded for their innovations revealed 30 unique challenges to planning and implementing innovations and an equal number of solutions, which were then organized into five clusters: strategy, finance, organizational behavior, human resource management, and communication. Administrators and staff in public libraries need to develop competencies in these five areas to better manage innovations in the future. Other public libraries can learn, apply, and benefit from these best practices. The best practices for managing innovations, if applied, can enhance the perceived and real value of public libraries to their local communities.

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Factors influencing undergraduate use of e-books: A mixed methods study

Cited by 29 publications

References 68 publications

Perceptions and E-book Use Behavior of University Students

Perceptions and E-book Use Behavior of University Students

Analyzing Service Divide in Academic Libraries for Better Serving Disabled Patrons Using Assistive Technologies

Best practices for managing innovations in public libraries in the USA

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