Title: Utilisation of library resource in Overseas Chinese University

Authors: Wen-Hsing Kao; Bo-Shen Liou; Hsien-Wei Yang; Shu-Yu Steve Wang

Addresses: Department of Information Technology, Overseas Chinese University, Taichung, Taiwan ' Department of Information Technology, Overseas Chinese University, Taichung, Taiwan ' Department of Information Technology, Overseas Chinese University, Taichung, Taiwan ' Department of Hotel and MICE Management, Overseas Chinese University, Taichung, Taiwan

Abstract: Library is one of the learning resources centre, it stores varieties of information, provides support for teaching and research and satisfies student needs in learning. With the university's academic and practical development, the library also keeps up with more collection on relative practical books, actively train student in information literacy, with the aim to educate students in lifelong learning and independent learning; OCU's library provides better service and other professional functions, to collaborate with university courses' syllabus, researches, reading, etc. The establishment of the learning resource centre benefits the lecturers and students as it stores and supplies countless type of knowledge depends on their needs. In recent years, the Ministry of Education promotes institutional research based on statistics to provide reference to any institution for strategy planning. The aim of this study is to analyse the relationship between efficiency of book lending and student result, based on the number of book lending, type of book and the time of return of the book.

Keywords: institutional research; learning efficiency; library usage.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCPS.2018.093095

International Journal of Cognitive Performance Support, 2018 Vol.1 No.2, pp.157 - 169

Received: 29 Aug 2017
Accepted: 08 Sep 2017
Published online: 09 Jul 2018 *

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