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Volume : III, Issue : IV, May - 2013

FACTOR ANALYSIS OF USERS PREFERENCE ATTRIBUTES IN USING WEB OPAC IN ACADEMIC LIBRARY: A SURVEY

MAHENDRA K SAHU AND SIBA PRASAD PANDA

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

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The purpose of this paper is to gain an understanding of the acceptance and preference attributes of Web-Opac services among the users of Gandhi Group of Institutions, Odisha, who uses library regularly. Web OPAC is an online public access catalogue provides the full description of the library resources through online. In this study Reliability Analysis was conducted for testing the preference of user on Web-Opac features.

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MAHENDRA K SAHU AND SIBA PRASAD PANDA, (2013). FACTOR ANALYSIS OF USERS PREFERENCE ATTRIBUTES IN USING WEB OPAC IN ACADEMIC LIBRARY: A SURVEY. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. III, Issue. IV, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/2409.pdf

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