Formation of Intellectual Competence of Students Studying in the Field of "Tourism"

The research attempted to examine the relationship between individual characteristics (internet efficacy, attitude towards digital library use and personal IT innovativeness) and digital library characteristics (information quality, system quality and Service quality) on digital library (DL) effectiveness in the context of academic digital library. Since the implementation of digital library in the University of Tehran, Iran, no attempt has been made to evaluate its effectiveness. Against this concern, a study was carried out to investigate the effectiveness of the digital library from the user perspective. This study aims to extend information system success in the context of digital library, in this regard; digital library effectiveness is defined as the composite correlation of variables consisting of individual characteristics and digital library characteristics (information quality, system quality and service quality), DL use and individual impact (personal sense accomplishment and user satisfaction). Therefore, this study seeks to confirm the Delone and Mclean's model of information system success in the context of an educational digital library. Adopting the survey research methodology involving 425 students, the findings suggest that three library characteristics, namely, interne efficacy, personal IT innovativeness, attitude towards DL, information quality, systems quality and service quality are predictors of digital library use. In addition, the findings also indicate that the degree of digital library use is impacting the user satisfaction and their personal sense of accomplishment.

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