Availability and utilization of internet facilities by users in Federal Colleges of Education Libraries in north eastern Nigeria

Abstract

This paper examined the availability and utilization of internet services at the Federal Colleges of Education (FCE) library of Adamawa, Gombe and Yobe States. Four objectives and four research questions guided the study. The study was limited to FCE Adamawa, Gombe and Yobe State Library. Survey research design was used for the study. The population of the study comprised of all the 420 registered users of internet services, and 200 of them were randomly selected as sample for the study, using simple random sampling technique. Questionnaire and Interview were the instruments used for data collection for the study. Descriptive statistics was used for data analysis. The results revealed among other things that there were internet services in the entire FCE libraries under study but the available internet services are inadequate in meeting user’s information needs; the FCE library’s collection under study are not integrated to the internet services but other library’s collection can be accessed through the FCE library’s internet services; users are not highly satisfied with the internet services in all the three FCE libraries.

Keywords: internet services, internet facilities, colleges of education, north east, Nigeria