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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INFORMATION LITERACY PROGRAMME IN LIBRARIES

Johnson and Onwuegbuzie (2004) defined mixed methods research as the class of

research where the researcher mixes or combine both quantitative and qualitative research
method into single study. However, in this study researchers are using quantitative method

as their research design in order to collect data from respondents. One of the advantage of

using quantitative method is the result easy to obtain and measure by the researchers.

3.3 STUDY POPULATION AND SAMPLING

According to Mugo Fridah W. (2002) she defined population as a group of individual
or persons, objects or items from which the samples are taken for measurements purpose

for instance a population of presidents or professor, books or students. She also defined
sampling as the act, process or technique of selecting a suitable sample or a representative

part of population purposely in determining parameters or characteristic of the whole

population.

This study is concerning on the implementation of information literacy program in

library and it involve population among the UiTM Puncak Perdana student as main
respondent. Staff, on the other hand also participate in this research and their contribution

is valuable.

Researchers decide to use simple random sampling (SRS) as their type of sampling
design. According to Kenneth N. Ross (2005) random sampling design is carried out

according to a set of mechanical instructions which guarantees the random nature of the
selection procedure. Researchers intend to choose degree holder students from both faculty

that is Faculty of Information Management (IM) and Faculty of Film, Theatre and

Animation (FITA) and they do not characterize them based on their semester level.
Therefore, researchers are classifying the student according to their course of study as

listed below:

 Information in Library Science Management (IM 244)

 Information System Management (IM 245)

 Information Record Management (IM 246)
 Information Resource Centre Management (IM 247)

 Creative Technology Screen (FF223)
 Creative Technology Artistic Writing (FF224)

 Creative Technology Theatre (FF225)

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