Journal of Management Information and Decision Sciences (Print ISSN: 1524-7252; Online ISSN: 1532-5806)

Abstract

THE AWARENESS AND USE OF SAUDI DIGITAL LIBRARY AMONG THE FACULTY MEMBERS OF VARIOUS COLLEGE LIBRARIES IN KSA

Author(s): Gangwani, S., & Alhaif, A. M.

Digital Libraries play a major role as centers of learning and institutions of information dissemination. The study aims at investigating the awareness and use of Saudi digital library (SDL) among the faculty members of various college libraries in Saudi Arabia. A questionnaire method was used to identify the awareness of Saudi digital library services, their views on SDL services and their satisfaction levels about e resources and on line database. A simple random sampling method was used. Descriptive statistics like mean, standard deviation, average have been used to analyze the data using the SPSS 22 software. Hypothesis testing was done by using Chi-square test. The data was collected through structured questionnaire. The study was confined to faculty members of various university in Saudi Arabia.

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