Awareness And Attitudes Of Users In Jordan Towards The Use Of Digital Full-Text Books During Pandemic Covid-19: Case Study, University Of Jordan

ABSTRACT

The goal of this study is to explore the awareness and attitudes of users at the University of Jordan as regards the use of digital books provided by academic libraries during the Covid-19 pandemic.Used the descriptive quantitative methodology through building a structured questionnaire to collect data from users at the University of Jordan which has the largest number of users .Out of the 650 total sample of students, a total of 540 questionnaires were collected for analysis. The results indicated that users were familiar with digital books and they use them in their research and studies. A maximum of the student participants had an affirmative awareness and attitude towards full text in form of digital books, and they indicated easy access to digital books;digital books support them in their research and study tasks. The results also indicated that digital books on the Internet are of great importance. In addition, there are significant differences of belief among students from different colleges regarding the use of digital books. This study will help guide decision-makers in the Jordanian university libraries to develop digital book collections, identify students' needs, and improve the digital services they provide. As far as the researcher knows, this first study is to identify awareness and attitudes of users the in academic environment towards the use of digital full textbooks in Jordan in particular and the Arab world in general.