Accessibility and Usage of Scholarly Information Sources by Faculty Members and Postgraduate Students of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
Accessibility and Usage of Scholarly Information Sources by Faculty Members and Postgraduate Students of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
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2010
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ADIGUN, Ganiyu Ojo
MOHAMMED, Zakari
TEMBOGE, Andrew
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This study was aimed at developing an understanding of the scholarly information sources and services that
faculty members and postgraduate students in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria accessed and used to
support their research, teaching and learning. Three research questions and one hypothesis were formulated
and tested with respect to types of Scholarly Information Sources (SIS) available, accessed and used by the
Faculty Members (FM) and Postgraduate (PG) Students of Ahmadu Bello University, (A.B.U.), Zaria,
Nigeria, in this study. A number of 868 samples comprising 487 FM and 381 PG students were drawn from
the population and used as sample size for this study. The data collected, through questionnaire and
observations, were analyzed using frequency distribution tables and percentages, while the hypothesis was
tested using T-test for independent samples. The results show that academic/research libraries and the
internet is the major SIS accessed by the FM and PG students in A.B.U., Zaria. In addition, printed matters
as well as manuscripts were the most accessed and utilized Scholarly Information Sources in A.B.U., Zaria.
Moreover, there is significant difference between the FM and PG students in their uses of Scholarly
Information Sources. This study therefore concludes that internet has revolutionized the process by which
information is being packaged, processed, stored arid disseminated, as well as how users seek and access
information, these notwithstanding, the academic and the research library is still very relevant to faculty
members and PG students’ scholarly activities. Therefore, the universities, through their library systems,
need to explore the advantages and opportunities offered by the application of Information and
communication Technology (ICTs) in scholarly information delivery.
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Accessibility,, Usage of Scholarly Information Sources,, Faculty Members,, Postgraduate Students,, Ahmadu Bello University,, Zaria,