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Use of electronic resources by postgraduate students in University of Cape Coast

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dc.contributor.author Kwafoa, Paulina
dc.contributor.author Barfi, Kwaku Anhwere
dc.contributor.author Agyapong, Emmanuel Manu
dc.date.accessioned 2020-08-11T09:53:59Z
dc.date.available 2020-08-11T09:53:59Z
dc.date.issued 2019-02-13
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/4147
dc.description 8p:, ill en_US
dc.description.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. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher International Journal of Library and Information Science en_US
dc.subject Awareness en_US
dc.subject Electronic resources en_US
dc.subject Postgraduate students en_US
dc.subject Training en_US
dc.title Use of electronic resources by postgraduate students in University of Cape Coast en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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