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Users’ Education as Correlates of Library Resources Utilization by Undergraduates’ in Selected Universities in Kwara State

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Title Users’ Education as Correlates of Library Resources Utilization by Undergraduates’ in Selected Universities in Kwara State
 
Creator Temim, Fatima Modupe
Omopupa, K. T.
Ajani, Florence Olabisi
 
Subject User education
Utilization
Library
Resources
Undergraduates
 
Description Background of the study: This study examines users’ education as correlates of library resources utilization by undergraduates’ in selected universities in Kwara State. The study identified five (5) research questions and two (2) research hypotheses.
Purpose: The study adopted descriptive where set of questionnaire were used to collect data. Stratified random sampling technique was used for this study, it was a sampling technique considered appropriate because the researcher intend to divide the two universities into strata, that is, faculty and college making a total of 15 and 5 faculties/colleges in University of Ilorin and Kwara State University respectively. Raosoft calculator was used to select sample size of the study at 95 % level of confidence. So, the total population for this study thus 382.
Method: Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics of frequency count and percentages while Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) was used to test the two hypotheses of the study.
Findings: The study revealed that majority of undergraduates’ are of opinion that users education has being a major mechanism to effective utilization of electronic information resources in University of Ilorin and Kwara state university
Conclusion: The study also concluded that textbooks, journals, indexes and abstracts, newspapers, CD-Rom and databases, internet are major information resources provision in the selected universities while the provision of Video tapes/cassettes are less provided in the library
 
Publisher D3 Perpustakaan Fakultas Vokasi Universitas Airlangga
 
Date 2021-06-29
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://e-journal.unair.ac.id/RLJ/article/view/35304
10.20473/rlj.v7i1.121
 
Source Record and Library Journal; Vol. 7 No. 1 (2021): June; 76-91
2442-5168
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://e-journal.unair.ac.id/RLJ/article/view/35304/17624
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2021 Fatima Modupe Temim, K. T. Omopupa, Florence Olabisi Ajani
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