Internet Literacy Skills And Utilization Of Electronic Information Resources (EIRS)InFederal University Libraries By Postgraduate Students in South-South, Nigeria

Abstract

The study was conducted to determine the extent of Internet literacy skills and utilization of electronic information resources in federal  university libraries by postgraduate students in South-South, Nigeria. To achieve this purpose, two objectives, two research questions  were raised and two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The sampled population of the study was 594 postgraduate students of the study area. The study adopted an ex-post facto research design with stratified and purposive sampling techniques. Data  were collected using self- administered questionnaire that were distributed according to stratums and analyzed, using population t-test and simple regression analysis. The findings showed that the level of utilization of electronic information resources by postgraduate  students in federal university libraries in South-South, Nigeria was significantly low and there was a significant influence of Internet  literacy skills on the utilization of electronic resources by the postgraduate students. The study recommended amongst others that to encourage the use of electronic information resources, university library management should take proactive steps in training and  orienting users on Internet skills as this has the potential of increasing the patronage of electronic information resources in the libraries.  Internet skills such as how to surf the net should be taught in the university libraries to postgraduate students to help them search for online information from different databases to enhance their theses and dissertations writing.