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Social influence among rural youth in using the rural library services in Malaysia

The main attempt of this study is to identify the social influence among the youth that might impinge them to go and use the rural library services offered at their areas. This was a quantitative study where a developed questionnaire was used in the data collection process. The study was conducted a...

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Main Authors: Bolong, Jusang, Omar, Siti Zobidah, Alby, Jeffrey Lawrence D'Silva, Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril
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Sprog:English
Udgivet: Asian Network for Scientific Information 2015
Online adgang:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/56660/1/Social%20influence%20among%20rural%20youth%20in%20using%20the%20rural%20library%20services%20in%20Malaysia.pdf
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spelling oai:psasir.upm.edu.my:56660 http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/56660/ Social influence among rural youth in using the rural library services in Malaysia Bolong, Jusang Omar, Siti Zobidah Alby, Jeffrey Lawrence D'Silva Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril The main attempt of this study is to identify the social influence among the youth that might impinge them to go and use the rural library services offered at their areas. This was a quantitative study where a developed questionnaire was used in the data collection process. The study was conducted at Johor, Terengganu, Kedah and Perak and involves a total of 400 rural youth aged between 15-40 years old. The analysis performed that all of the social sources listed recorded a high level of mean score whereby good communication with rural library staffs recorded the highest mean score while encouragement from village leaders recorded the lowest mean score. A number of recommendations were placed and hoped that such recommendations can assist the concerned parties in constructing strategic planning for rural library development. Asian Network for Scientific Information 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/56660/1/Social%20influence%20among%20rural%20youth%20in%20using%20the%20rural%20library%20services%20in%20Malaysia.pdf Bolong, Jusang and Omar, Siti Zobidah and Alby, Jeffrey Lawrence D'Silva and Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril (2015) Social influence among rural youth in using the rural library services in Malaysia. Journal of Applied Sciences, 15 (2). pp. 321-324. ISSN 1812-5654; ESSN: 1812-5662 http://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jas.2015.321.324 10.3923/jas.2015.321.324
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description The main attempt of this study is to identify the social influence among the youth that might impinge them to go and use the rural library services offered at their areas. This was a quantitative study where a developed questionnaire was used in the data collection process. The study was conducted at Johor, Terengganu, Kedah and Perak and involves a total of 400 rural youth aged between 15-40 years old. The analysis performed that all of the social sources listed recorded a high level of mean score whereby good communication with rural library staffs recorded the highest mean score while encouragement from village leaders recorded the lowest mean score. A number of recommendations were placed and hoped that such recommendations can assist the concerned parties in constructing strategic planning for rural library development.
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author Bolong, Jusang
Omar, Siti Zobidah
Alby, Jeffrey Lawrence D'Silva
Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril
spellingShingle Bolong, Jusang
Omar, Siti Zobidah
Alby, Jeffrey Lawrence D'Silva
Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril
Social influence among rural youth in using the rural library services in Malaysia
author_facet Bolong, Jusang
Omar, Siti Zobidah
Alby, Jeffrey Lawrence D'Silva
Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril
author_sort Bolong, Jusang
title Social influence among rural youth in using the rural library services in Malaysia
title_short Social influence among rural youth in using the rural library services in Malaysia
title_full Social influence among rural youth in using the rural library services in Malaysia
title_fullStr Social influence among rural youth in using the rural library services in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Social influence among rural youth in using the rural library services in Malaysia
title_sort social influence among rural youth in using the rural library services in malaysia
publisher Asian Network for Scientific Information
publishDate 2015
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/56660/1/Social%20influence%20among%20rural%20youth%20in%20using%20the%20rural%20library%20services%20in%20Malaysia.pdf
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