The sole purpose of academic library is to enhance the teaching and learning environment and to support research activities. Over the years, higher education institutions continually increase the possession of printed and electronic materials for students, academics and staff. With the growth of electronic facilities and resources as well as increasing budgetary pressure, libraries must identify the factors that influence the use of the available materials. This study adopted a structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to examine the preferred reference book format among students (n = 145) at a government-linked boutique university. The result reveals that students' perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use played a crucial role in influencing the preferred library book format whilst the users' attitude fully mediated the relationship between these variables. This study identified also a partial mediating effect of desire between users' attitudes and intentions. Besides, the organizational characteristics had a significant effect on users' perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. Overall, by focusing on the underlying mechanisms of the theories of TAM, TPB, and TSR in choosing library resource format, this study developed an integrated model, which contributes to both theories, and practices in library management literature.

学术图书馆的唯一目的是改善教学环境并支持研究活动。多年来，高等教育机构不断增加为学生、学者和教职员工提供的印刷和电子材料。随着电子设施和资源的增长以及预算压力的增加，图书馆必须确定影响可用资料使用的因素。本研究采用结构方程模型 (PLS-SEM) 来检查学生 ( n = 145）在一所政府相关的精品大学。结果表明，学生的感知有用性和感知易用性在影响首选图书馆书籍格式方面起着至关重要的作用，而用户的态度则完全调节了这些变量之间的关系。该研究还确定了用户态度和意图之间欲望的部分中介作用。此外，组织特征对用户的感知有用性和感知易用性有显着影响。总体而言，通过关注 TAM、TPB 和 TSR 理论在选择图书馆资源格式方面的潜在机制，本研究开发了一个综合模型，有助于图书馆管理文献的理论和实践。