Abstract:
The study investigates the use of electronic resources by postgraduate students in University of Cape
Coast (UCC). It specifically targets first year postgraduate students of UCC. Awareness, usage, training,
and access were explored. A survey method was employed and a structured questionnaire was utilized
to solicit data. The findings revealed that, though students are aware of electronic resources, they do
not fully utilize them to support their academic pursuit due to poor level of information literacy skills.
However, few students had not participated in all information literacy skills training organized by the
library. Results from the study showed that, significant number of postgraduate students do access
electronic resources when on campus and mostly use electronic devices such as laptops, ipad,
desktop computers, and mobile phones. The findings indicated that students use the electronic
resources to complete assignments, write project work, to update lessons note, for research, and update themselves on new information in their fields of study. It was recommended that a structured
curriculum should therefore be established as part of postgraduate students’ normal lecture periods
where time is allocated on their time table for electronic resource training, and if possible, credited to
their academic performance ratings or grading.
