A survey on the use of library resources, services and facilities: a case study at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia/ Mohd Dasuki Sahak and Mohd Sharif Mohd Saad

This study investigates the usage of library resources, services and facilities among first and third year medical students in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FPSK), Universiti Putra Malaysia {UPM}. The study attempts to identify the usage of library services, resources and facilities....

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Main Authors: Sahak, Mohd Dasuki, Mohd Saad, Mohd Sharif
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spelling my.uitm.ir.521092021-10-14T08:28:43Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/52109/ A survey on the use of library resources, services and facilities: a case study at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia/ Mohd Dasuki Sahak and Mohd Sharif Mohd Saad Sahak, Mohd Dasuki Mohd Saad, Mohd Sharif Academic libraries ZA Information resources (General) Information services. Information centers This study investigates the usage of library resources, services and facilities among first and third year medical students in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FPSK), Universiti Putra Malaysia {UPM}. The study attempts to identify the usage of library services, resources and facilities. Questionnaire employed in this study was based on the previous works that measures the frequency of usage of library resources, services and facilities in the library by daily, weekly, monthly, once per semester or never. With regards to the library usage all respondents, 205(100%) claimed that they visited the library to study and use the Internet. They also frequented the library to do their assignments 199 (97.1%); discussions with friends 176 (85.9%) and for leisure reading 192(93. 7%). For resources, the Internet was rank first, second the newspaper, and the third are library websites. This is followed by library online database, dictionaries, handbooks and textbooks. The less frequently used resources are library OPAC, project paper, EZ-Proxy, Full text journal, encyclopedia, thesis and statistical reports. For frequency usage of library facilities the computer is rank first, followed by the reading area. The third is facilities which include discussion room, then the rest such as prayer room, printing, photocopy and self check machine. Fakulti of Information Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA 2011 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/52109/1/52109.PDF ID52109 Sahak, Mohd Dasuki and Mohd Saad, Mohd Sharif (2011) A survey on the use of library resources, services and facilities: a case study at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia/ Mohd Dasuki Sahak and Mohd Sharif Mohd Saad. Journal of Information and Knowledge Management (JIKM), 1 (1). pp. 127-139. ISSN 2231-8836 ; E-ISSN:2289-5337 https://ijikm.uitm.edu.my/
institution Universiti Teknologi Mara
building Tun Abdul Razak Library
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country Malaysia
content_provider Universiti Teknologi Mara
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topic Academic libraries
ZA Information resources (General)
Information services. Information centers
spellingShingle Academic libraries
ZA Information resources (General)
Information services. Information centers
Sahak, Mohd Dasuki
Mohd Saad, Mohd Sharif
A survey on the use of library resources, services and facilities: a case study at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia/ Mohd Dasuki Sahak and Mohd Sharif Mohd Saad
description This study investigates the usage of library resources, services and facilities among first and third year medical students in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FPSK), Universiti Putra Malaysia {UPM}. The study attempts to identify the usage of library services, resources and facilities. Questionnaire employed in this study was based on the previous works that measures the frequency of usage of library resources, services and facilities in the library by daily, weekly, monthly, once per semester or never. With regards to the library usage all respondents, 205(100%) claimed that they visited the library to study and use the Internet. They also frequented the library to do their assignments 199 (97.1%); discussions with friends 176 (85.9%) and for leisure reading 192(93. 7%). For resources, the Internet was rank first, second the newspaper, and the third are library websites. This is followed by library online database, dictionaries, handbooks and textbooks. The less frequently used resources are library OPAC, project paper, EZ-Proxy, Full text journal, encyclopedia, thesis and statistical reports. For frequency usage of library facilities the computer is rank first, followed by the reading area. The third is facilities which include discussion room, then the rest such as prayer room, printing, photocopy and self check machine.
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title A survey on the use of library resources, services and facilities: a case study at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia/ Mohd Dasuki Sahak and Mohd Sharif Mohd Saad
title_short A survey on the use of library resources, services and facilities: a case study at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia/ Mohd Dasuki Sahak and Mohd Sharif Mohd Saad
title_full A survey on the use of library resources, services and facilities: a case study at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia/ Mohd Dasuki Sahak and Mohd Sharif Mohd Saad
title_fullStr A survey on the use of library resources, services and facilities: a case study at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia/ Mohd Dasuki Sahak and Mohd Sharif Mohd Saad
title_full_unstemmed A survey on the use of library resources, services and facilities: a case study at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia/ Mohd Dasuki Sahak and Mohd Sharif Mohd Saad
title_sort survey on the use of library resources, services and facilities: a case study at the faculty of medicine and health science, universiti putra malaysia/ mohd dasuki sahak and mohd sharif mohd saad
publisher Fakulti of Information Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA
publishDate 2011
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