Academic use of electronic resources by undergraduates of University of Ibadan

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dc.contributor.authorTemiloluwa Omidiji
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-29T12:49:48Z
dc.date.available2025-05-29T12:49:48Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThis study explored electronic resources use and students’ academic tasks. The descriptive survey design of the correlational type was adopted and the study population consisted of the 13,153 undergraduate students of the University of Ibadan. The multi stage sampling technique was used to select a sample of 248. However, a total of 231 administered copies of questionnaire were returned and used for analysis, consisting of four faculties and two departments each. The questionnaire was used for data collection. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics on three research questions. Findings revealed that a majority of the undergraduates - 98 (42.4%) and 91 (39.4%) - indicated that the e-resources readily available to them were e-books, e-journals and e-newspapers such as Punch and The Nation. The respondents - 151 (65.4%), 142 (61.5%) and 138 (59.7%) - indicated that they used e-resources for learning, reading (personal and general) and project works respectively. Findings also showed that Internet really plays a prominent role in the academic engagements of undergraduates as a majority of the undergraduates - 171 (74.0%) and 99 (42.9%)- indicated that they made use of the Internet and electronic mails (e-mails) daily. The challenges experienced by the undergraduates were: slow network connectivity, lack of adequate power supply and unfriendly user interfaces, as expressed by 132 (57.1%), 110 (47.6%) and 93 (40.3%) respondents respectively. The paper concluded and recommended that university administrators contribute to the upkeep and acquisition of these electronic resources, particularly for the library, to facilitate easy access and utilization by undergraduates and other categories of students for their diverse educational activities within the university.
dc.identifier.citationOmidiji, T. (2024). Academic use of electronic resources by undergraduates of University of Ibadan. Journal of Library Services and Technologies, 6(2), 252-262.
dc.identifier.uri10.47524/jlst.v6i2.253
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.run.edu.ng/handle/123456789/5016
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherJournal of Library Services and Technologies
dc.relation.ispartofseries6; (2)
dc.titleAcademic use of electronic resources by undergraduates of University of Ibadan
dc.typeArticle
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