Awareness and adoption of electronic information resources and services by undergraduates in college of education libraries in Northeast Nigeria

This study examined awareness and adoption of electronic information resources and services by undergraduates in

college of education libraries in Northeast Nigeria. The purpose of the study is to: determine the level of awareness

of e-resources among undergraduate students of colleges of education in Northeast Nigeria, examine the extent of

adoption of e-resources by undergraduate student of colleges of education in Northeast Nigeria and identify the

challenges encounter by undergraduate student of colleges of education in Northeast Nigeria. The study employed

quantitative approach in data collection. The study obtained data through questionnaires administered to students of

Colleges of Education in Northeast which comprised of Federal College of Education Gombe, Gombe State Yola,

Adamawa State and Potistum in Yobe State as well as State Colleges of Education, Azare, Bauchi State

respectively. The population of the study consisted of the 1449. The units of analysis consisted of the students of the

institutions. The sample size of the students is 338. Furthermore, data collection instruments consisted of

questionnaires methods. Instruments for data collection was distributed by the researcher. Data was analyzed using

descriptive statistics by explaining the demographic features of the respondents. The finding of the study revealed

that the level of awareness towards e-resources have helped the library greatly to improve e resources. The study

shows that electronic information resources have great and positive impact on searching for information adoption of

e-resources which enables users to contribute to research output as well as interact with the latest literature in

research. The study also indicated that that that support and training on e-resources have helped to access

information using e- resources in the library. It has shown that the despites awareness and adoption of e-resources to

improve research and information needs of the users, challenges of awareness and adoption of e-resources were still

prominent. Some students still face challenges of lack of awareness, poor attitudes and poor usage of electronic

resources towards effective information service delivery, while others had shown a remarkable awareness towards eresources in the library. The study concluded awareness and adoption of electronic information resources in

academic libraries have assisted students in recent time to embrace electronic collections to meet up with recent

trends in information service provision, its recommended that there is the need for training to close the gaps on

adoption of information resources and service for effective information service delivery.