The Roles of Aesthetics and Information Quality on Continued Use of Digital Library (CUDL) by Malaysian Postgraduate Students

A digital library is a new information system provided by libraries and information centers around the world, including in Malaysia. It is important to study the reasons why and how users accept and use digital libraries. The objective of this study is to investigate the roles of aesthetics where it divided into two types which are classical aesthetics and expressive aesthetics; and information quality on users' continued use of a digital library. The study proposes to investigate the factors that are expected to influence the intention of postgraduate students to continued use of the digital library based on three models: a modified UTAUT2 model, an aesthetics model, and Delone and McLean's Information Success Model. Postgraduate students from University Sains Malaysia (USM) will be selected as the sample to test the research questions and fulfil the research objectives of the study. It is expected that this research will provide new insights into research on continued use of the library (CUDL) in a digital environment.