THE APPLICATION OF TAM FOR INVESTIGATING USERS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS IOT USAGE IN THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES OF ODISHA

Now-a-days libraries are facing many service challenges which are related to massive quantities of data and direct availability of networked information landscape to develop and explore next generation catalog and library as a place etc. The collaboration of several of these challenges are associated with scattered technologies within libraries is known as Internet of Things (IoT). IoT is described as a global network infrastructure linking physical and virtual objects through the exploitation of data capture and communication capabilities. These will be characterized by a high degree of autonomous data capture, event transfer, network connectivity, and interoperability. The basic set of technologies associated with IoT are Radio Frequency Identification Device(RFID), Wireless communication devices, sensors, cloud computing technologies, energy harvesting technologies and advanced Internet protocol(IPv6). To improve the efficiency and the visibility of library collection and management services, RFID, Wi-Fi and cloud computing technology has emerged as a critical component of IoT system. The purpose of this study is to examine the factors that influence the use of IoT systems such as RFID, Cloud computing system in the library context by adopting the framework of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). So this paper examines the role of two aspects of IoT implementation in the library services. First, the external variables such as Organizational Competency, Technological Factor, Personal Competency and Environmental Factors and second is the TAM variables such as Perceived Use, Perceived Ease of Use, Behavioral Intension and Attitude towards the use of IoT technology in library system. Total 611 samples from different categories of users from different university libraries of Odisha state have collected for the survey. Based on this sample, this paper analyzes the TAM model in predicting the effects of external variables on TAM variables and also the behavioral intension of the users to adopt IoT in libraries.