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- Title
Academic E-Book Usage: Expectancy Confirmation Model.
- Authors
Ahmad, Pervaiz
- Abstract
This paper reports on a project that applied technology adoption theory in effort to understand user e-book information behavior in academic library setting. Academics, staff, and students at Edith Cowan University (ECU) voluntarily self-reported their e-book information behavior via online survey. Quantitative analysis was carried out on the survey data comprising full or partial responses from 315 academics, students, and general staff, using statistical package SPSS. Factors in overall satisfaction with ECU library e-books were found to include utility (collection sufficiency and convenience), usability (discovery, information retrieval, interface ease of use, and agent/use platform), expectation confirmation, facilitating conditions (customization), culture of use (agents/platforms), habituation/automaticity and hedonic attributes (attractiveness and pleasantness). Statistically significant factors of continuance intention for using ECU library e-books included performance expectancy/utility (convenience, overall satisfaction, functionality), hedonic attributes (pleasantness, attractiveness), effort expectancy/usability (discovery, findability, extended reading), familiarity (prior experience of using e-books), gratification, information literacy, intimacy, and culture of use (preference for p-books vs. e-books) and facilitating conditions (such as embedded links). E-book users' information behavior was found to be consistent with major technology adoption theories and frameworks in terms of satisfaction and continuance.
- Subjects
ELECTRONIC books; ACADEMIC library research; SPSS (Computer software); INFORMATION literacy research; EDITH Cowan University
- Publication
Pakistan Library & Information Science Journal, 2016, Vol 47, Issue 1, p53
- ISSN
1994-3059
- Publication type
Article