INFLUENCE OF INFORMATION LITERACY SKILLS IN THE USE OF ELECTRONIC INFORMATION RESOURCES BY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF BUK, NIGERIA
INFLUENCE OF INFORMATION LITERACY SKILLS IN THE USE OF ELECTRONIC INFORMATION RESOURCES BY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF BUK, NIGERIA
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Date
2021
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Muhammad, Kabir Sahabi
Mohammed, Abubakar Abdullahi
Suleiman, Hussaini
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Abstract
The study evaluated the information literacy skills as predictor of use of electronic information resources
by undergraduates in Bayero University Library, Kano. The study adopted a survey design with a study
population of 823 undergraduate students who registered with the university libraries between 2017-
2019 academic session, from which a sample of 165 respondents were selected using Wimmer and
Dominick’s (1987) formula. Data was analyzed using the SPSS software, frequency distribution and
percentages. The findings revealed that most of the undergraduates in Bayero University Library, Kano
considered their level of information literacy skills to be high. Electronic information resources have
indeed become very important to undergraduates in Nigerian university libraries especially in accessing
up-to-date information as they give access to quality information irrespective of place, time and space.
However, the study recommended that the management of BUK library should ensure that the teaching
of information literacy skills to undergraduates in BUK is promoted. This is to ensure that the high level of
usage of EIRs by undergraduate students is sustained
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A paper presented at the LISVN 2021 Conference in Collaboration with
the Department of Library and Information Science, A.B.U Zaria