Journal Articles
Some students still read books in the 21st century: A study of user preferences for print and electronic libraries
- Some students still read books in the 21st century: A study of user preferences for print and electronic libraries
- Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 3(3), 34-49, 2003
- Bentham open
- 2003
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Post-Secondary Education
- With a rise in the technology for the production of electronic or digital materials, funders and administrators of libraries are increasingly leaning towards providing digital reading materials to users. In crowded cities like Hong Kong where space is a scarce commodity, the save-space feature of digital libraries is an even more attractive reason why users of library facilities in academic and public libraries are being encouraged to read electronic versions of publications. In this article we show that, however laudable the advantages of electronic books may be over physical print books, user preferences in every situation must be carefully analyzed before a paradigm shift from print to digital library resources can be successfully effected. The data for this paper come mainly from a survey of user preferences among students of the University of Hong Kong, which shows that an overwhelming majority (77%) of the respondents prefers print to digital materials. We conclude that the success or otherwise of the paradigm shift from print to digital libraries would depend on measures taken to encourage a positive attitude of users for digital library resources. [Copyright of Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal is the property of Bentham open.Access via Directory of Open Access Journals: http://www.readingmatrix.com/journal.html]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 1533242X
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/cd12a46a
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