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The move from conventional to digital libraries isn’t just a technological development, it requires an adjustment in the worldview by which people access and connect with data. The main aim of this paper is to study the students’ perception of e-library system at Fujairah University, UAE. A questionnaire was conducted of close-ended questions that was distributed to random sample students at Fujairah University, UAE. A simple random sample of 75 students were chosen randomly sample from a larger population to study the students’ perception of the e-library system at Fujairah University.
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AlHamad, A.Q.M., AlHammadi, R.A. (2019). Students’ Perception of E-library System at Fujairah University. In: Auer, M., Langmann, R. (eds) Smart Industry & Smart Education. REV 2018. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 47. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95678-7_72
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