Overall Factors Affecting E-books Usage of Humanities Graduate Students in Public Universities
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This research paper aims to study the factors both directly and indirectly affecting the use of e-books among humanities graduate students in public universities. This research uses a mixed method by separating the sample into 2 groups. Group 1 consists of 374 graduate students in the fields of humanities, languages, linguistics, literature, culture, history, archeology, philosophy, religion and theology. Group 2 consisted of 55 key informants, administrators and lecturers from the humanities faculty and library administrators from 9 public universities. The research instruments were structured in-depth questionnaires and interviews. The statistics used for quantitative data analysis were percentage, mean and standard deviation. The qualitative data were analyzed by content analysis method.
The results of the research showed that, Overall factors affecting e-book usage of humanities graduate students in public universities such as user factors, Information technology factors, teaching-learning factors, and information resource factors. The most success affect factors is the user factors. The sub-factors that affect usage the most are the perception of benefit, the reading tools, the attitudes and motivation. Information technology factors is the most variable that affects usage the most is the internet signal. The indirect factors affecting e-books usage among humanities graduate students which are teaching and learning factors and information sources. The variable that affects e-books usage the most are the suggestion of digital resource by teachers and the transformation of rare books in academic libraries to digital form.
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บทความทุกเรื่องที่ลงตีพิมพ์จะได้รับการตรวจอ่านโดยผู้ทรงคุณวุฒิ ความคิดเห็นและบทความที่ปรากฏในวารสารนี้ เป็นของผู้เขียนซึ่งมิใช่เป็นความคิดเห็นของคณะผู้จัดทำ และมิใช่ความรับผิดชอบของสมาคมห้องสมุดแห่งประเทศไทยฯ การนำบทความในวารสารนี้ไปตีพิมพ์ซ้ำต้องได้รับอนุญาตจากคณะผู้จัดทำ
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