ACCESS AND USE OF ELECTRONIC INFORMATION RESOURCES AMONG UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF UMARU MUSA YAR'ADUA UNIVERSITY, KATSINA

This study investigated the access and use of electronic information resources among Undergraduate students of Umaru Musa Yar'adua University, Katsina. Five (5) objectives, five (5) research questions were formulated to guide the study. Quantitative and survey research method was adopted for the study. The population of the study consist of four thousand three hundred and eight (4,308 ). Random sampling procedure was used to select three hundred and forty-six (351) undergraduate students from different levels and departments in the study and the sample size for the study was determine using Krejcie and Morgan table of determining the sample size.The instrument used for the study was Access and use of electronic information resources Questionnaire (AUEIRQ). Descriptive statistics of frequency counts and percentages was used in analyzing demographic variables while Mean Scores was used to answer the research questions with the aid of SPSS V23.0. The findings of the study show that there are available electronic resources in Umaru Musa Yar'adua University Library, majority of the undergraduate students in Umaru Musa Yar'adua University, Katsina usually use electronic resources such as CD-ROM, Internet, Online database, Software, and the Search engine with grand mean of 2.72, majority of the undergraduate students of Umaru Musa Yar'adua University, Katsina were highly accessing the library electronic information resources with a grand mean of 2.64, the result shows that majority of undergraduate students of Umaru Musa Yar'adua University, Katsina are aware of the electronic information resources to the extent with a grand mean of 2.98 and majority of the undergraduate students faced challenges on the use of electronic resources in Umaru Musa Yar'adua University, Katsina with grand mean of 3.11. It was recommended that the university library should continue to organize more tutorial, awareness strategies, campaign and seminars on the use of electronic information resources and also how to access them without duress.