The Academic Library’s Impact on undergraduate students’ Development

Subjects: Library Science，Information Science >> Library Management submitted time 2023-04-28

Zhou Jian Wang Yan

Abstract： According to the former literatures, library services items divide into three categories, space facilities, information resources and librarian’s intelligences. With Structural Equation Model and ANOVA analysis, this paper tries to weight the impact of service items on student’s achievement. With 76 pedagogic students, It Shows: (I) information resources have positive effects on students' course performance and moral conduct；(II) space facilities and librarian’s intelligences had negative effect on students' course performance and moral conduct；(III) Library service items have no effect on the development of critical thinking. According those findings, this paper recommend that, (I) continuing the construction of digital libraries, especially the organization of digital resources on mobile platform; (II) modular organization of "space, resources, and intelligence", change the image of academic library as self-study room; (3) offering variable information literacy courses and aiding low- socioeconomic statue students.

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