Importance of Offline Access Skills for Students in the Digital Era

Abstract

Accessing information in the library can be done through the library space and institutional repository. Therefore, both online and offline access skills are indispensable for students. This study aims to determine the correlation between students’ access skills and their intention to access information in the quantitative research method, using the SmartPLS application version 3. The studied samples are 93 students of UIN Saizu who currently sit in semesters 8 and 10 with a repository account. Results show that offline access skills affect students’ intentions to access information both in the physical space and in the repository. On the other hand, online access skills affect the intensity of accessing the repository but do not significantly affect the intention of visiting the library space. Therefore, skills to explore physical materials and gain information through it are negatively correlated with their intention to access the library. This suggested that offine access skills are indispensable for UIN Saizu’s students.