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Article Name :
USE OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES BY KUWAIT UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
Author Name :
Yasinullah Shafiullah , Vaishali Khaparde and Fawaz Abdullah Alhamdi
Publisher :
Ashok Yakkaldevi
Article Series No. :
ISRJ-539
Article URL :
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Abstract :
The present study assessed the use of public libraries among university students in Kuwait and to find the barriers for visiting them. A well structured questionnaire was distributed among the 50 students. Frequency, percentage, Mean ranks, Mann-Whitney test (U-Test) and Kruskal (H-Test) -Wallis are the Statistical package for Social Science (SPSS) was used to analyze and manipulate the collected data. Findings of this study showed that the majority (56%) of the students don’t think that the public library could play a very vital role in improving their education. Most common reason for not visiting the public libraries is “academic library replaces the public library” (78%), also there is a significant differences exist in the gender, work category, Residency, Status, educational levels of their thinking that visiting to the public libraries could play a very vital role in improving their education.
Keywords :
  • plagiarism
  • information scenario
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  • plagiarism software
  • e-journal
  • periodical database