EXTENT OF UTILIZATION OF ICT BASED LIBRARY RESOURCES BY FINAL YEAR STUDENTS IN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF LAFIA LIBARAY

Student: Kumawuese Doris Kpamor
Supervisor: Mr Joseph A. Lolo
HOD: Mr Kudu Dogara
Department of Library and Information Science
School of Communication Technology
Isa Mustapha Agwai I Polytechnic, Lafia, Nasarawa State

Abstract

This study examined the extent'of utilization of ICT based library resources by final year students in Federal University Lafia Library. Five objectives of the study and five research questions guided the study. The case study design was adopted and a population of 1000. A sample size of 10% of the entire population was used that is 100. Questionnaire was used to collect dlata which was analysed using simple percentage, and frequency table. The findings of the study revealed that students' satisfactorily utilizes ICT resouurces in the library and that the library had enough ICT facilities. However, library staffrequired further retraining and up-to-date training to get acquainted with these facilitates. Based on the findings of the study,it was recommended that thestaff should be regular retrained in using these resources and provision of adequate information tools to users.

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