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- Title
AVAILABILITY, ACCESSIBILITY AND UTILIZATION OF ELECTRONIC INFORMATION RESOURCES BY UNDERGRADUATES OF LADOKE AKINTOLA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, OGBOMOSO, OYO STATE, NIGERIA.
- Authors
Oyelade, Kehinde Mary; Unegbu, Vincent Enyeribe; Madukoma, Ezinwayi
- Abstract
The study investigates the availability, accessibility and utilization of electronic information resources by undergraduates of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo state, Nigeria. Survey research design was adopted for this study. A population of six thousand three hundred and forty (6340) undergraduates were involved in the study. A total number of Three hundred and seventeen 317 undergraduates were drawn as sample size through stratified sampling techniques. Questionnaire was the main instrument used for data collection. Two hundred and seventy 274 four dally filed questionnaires were received, given an overall response rate of 86.49%. Data were collected and analyzed using descriptive and correlation analyses. Pear Correlation Coefficient was the statistical analysis adopted to test the hypothesis under study at 0.05 level of significance. The finding of this study revealed that availability, accessibility and utilization of electronic information resources significantly influenced the utilization of electronic information resources in LAUTECH Library (Adj. R-squared 474, F(3) =41.985, p =000). The findings further revealed individual significant influence of availability and accessibility of EIR on its utilization. Each of availability and accessibility had relative influences on utilization of EIR. EIR were available, accessible and utilized in LAUTECH library. The study concluded that availability and accessibility of e-resources lead to EIR utilization. It is recommended that adequate budgetary allocation should be given to LAUTECH library for subscription to online databases and acquisition of e-books and e-journals. The library management should create awareness on how to use the e-resources available in the university library and its importance to undergraduates. The librarian should train and retrain both lecturers and undergraduates on how well to use online databases for maximum gain.
- Subjects
OYO State (Nigeria); NIGERIA; ELECTRONIC information resources; ELECTRONIC books; ELECTRONIC journals; ONLINE databases; LIBRARY administration; UNDERGRADUATES; TRAINING of librarians; ACADEMIC libraries; ACADEMIC librarians
- Publication
Library Philosophy & Practice, 2022, p1
- ISSN
1522-0222
- Publication type
Article