The relationship between academic library usage and educational performance in Kuwait
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2012
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University libraries play an important role in contributing to student and faculty members’ academic achievement. This study examines perceptions of university library usage to consider factors that influence achievement of students, academics and administrators. A thorough review of relevant literature examined approaches to determining user satisfaction of students and faculty, and factors that influence library usage. It highlighted the value of usage on educational performance. It enabled development of a theoretical framework leading to the Factors of Academic Library Usage (FALU) model, which was developed to investigate the effect of usage factors. FALU was tested in Kuwait university libraries. The study used validated questionnaires from 792 students, 143 academics and 121 administrators to measure five library factors. Interviews were conducted across the three University libraries. The findings are useful in measuring the correlation between the current academic library usage and educational performance. |
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Emerald Group Publishing Limited |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/48275/1/Academic_library_usage_Kuwait_as_submitted.pdf DOI:10.1108/01435121211203347 Alharbi, Awadh & Middleton, Michael R. (2012) The relationship between academic library usage and educational performance in Kuwait. Library Management, 33(1/2), pp. 86-94. |
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Copyright 2012 Emerald Group Publishing Limited |
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Faculty of Science and Technology |
Palavras-Chave | #080706 Librarianship #Academic libraries #Kuwait #Library collections, #University administrators #HERN #Academics #Evaluation models #University students #Academic performance |
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Journal Article |