Browsing by Author "Tibenderana, Prisca K. G."

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    Acceptance and Use of Electronic Library Services in Ugandan Universities
    (ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference, 2008) Tibenderana, Prisca K. G.; Ogao, Patrick J.
    University libraries in Developing Countries (DCs), hampered by developmental problems, find it hard to provide electronic services. Donor communities have come in to bridge this technology gap by providing funds to university libraries for information technology infrastructure, enabling these university libraries to provide electronic library services to patrons. However, for these services to be utilized effectively, library endusers must accept and use them. To investigate this process in Uganda, this study modifies “The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology” (UTAUT) by replacing “effort expectancy” and “voluntariness” with “relevancy”, “awareness” and “benefits” factors. In so doing, we developed the Service Oriented UTAUT (SOUTAUT) model whose dependent constructs predict 133% of the variances in user acceptance and use of e-library services. The study revealed that relevancy moderated by awareness plays a major factor in acceptance and use of e-library services in DCs.
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    Information Communication Technologies Acceptance and Use Among University Communities in Uganda: A Model for Hybrid Library Services End-Users
    (Fountain Publishers, 2008) Tibenderana, Prisca K. G.; Ogao, Patrick J.
    Since their inception during the first century, library institutions have used manual operations to provide services to patrons. Information seekers in these libraries spent a lot of time perusing through card catalogues and searching rows of stacks for material that may have been checked out by someone else. The tradition tool and techniques were inadequate and time consuming. The introduction of the new technologies has changed this concept and what we have now are hybrid libraries based on computer networks and physical facilities. This investigation is an effort to examine alternative measures of intention in revalidating and expanding (Venkatesh et al. 2003) UTAUT model in the context of hybrid library services using university communities in a less developed country, Uganda.