Understanding the reading habit and attitudes among the rural community in low literacy rate areas in Malaysia: rural library perspectives

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Understanding the reading habit and attitudes among the rural community in low literacy rate areas in Malaysia: rural library perspectives

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the reading habit and attitude among rural communities in the low literacy rate areas in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach: Multi-stage cluster and simple random sampling were employed and 400 respondents who live nearby the rural library wer...

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Main Authors:	Samsuddin, Samsul Farid, Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril, Bolong, Jusang, Mohamed, Nor Aini
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Emerald Publishing Limited 2020
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/29056/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/29056/1/Understanding%20the%20reading%20habit%20and%20attitudes%20among%20the%20rural%20community%20in%20low%20literacy%20rate%20areas%20in%20Malaysia%20rural%20library%20perspectives.pdf

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