Determinants of library use amongst university students

Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 21-31

  Teoh, Zei Mei ^a   Tan, Andrew K G ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Determinants; Library use; Logit analysis; Malaysia; University students

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960531705     PISSN: 13946234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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