| dc.description.abstract | Institutions of higher education have increasingly invested in library management systems to
provide a reading environment designed to enhance student learning and research. While there has
been an increase in the design and development of Library information systems, many of the
systems are not being utilized by the library users to solve their information needs. Most of the
systems currently designed are not user centered because the designers of these systems don’t
really consult the library users before developing the systems. Little effort has been made to
investigate the perception and intention to use mobile phone-based library information systems by
the library users (Venkatesh, 2012). This research paper aims to present an overview of the
perception of the students regarding possible use and implementation of mobile phones in library
services for Islamic University in Uganda Library (IUIUL), and to design an architecture that
supports library users’ perception regarding the possible advantages of implementing mobile based
library services in IUIU library. This research adopted the unified theory of acceptance and use of
technology (UTAUT) to study acceptance and use of technology in a library user context. The
UTAUT theory considers that three key factors; performance expectancy, effort expectancy and
social influence are direct determinants of behavioral intention to use technology. The User
Centered Design (UCD) was used with a structured questionnaire to conduct the research. The data
was collected from different faculty for the balance of the study and findings. The data was
collected from three campuses of IUIU. Responses to closed-ended questions were analyzed using
the descriptive analysis techniques of SPSS 20.0 and responses to other closed-ended questions
were analyzed using general statistics. The result of the study shows that the status of mobile
phone usage by the library users of IUIUL is satisfactory. The findings of the study indicate that
the students provide their consensus regarding the use of mobile phones in service delivery at
IUIUL. This study provides evidence on the actual use of mobile phones by the students of IUIUL
for retrieving information and their attitude towards implementing a mobile based library system
for IUIUL.
Keywords— Islamic University in Uganda Library (IUIUL), Library Users, Mobile phones. | en_US |
