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    Information communication technology: A catalyst for enhancing the role of libraries in the creation of an information society
    (Progressive Academic Publishing, 2015) OGO, Emuejevoke Paul; Eghworo, Obukowho Ruth; Ayomanor, Kenneth Ejiro
    The advances in ICTs have decisively changed the method of operation in the library and learning environment which has in turn transited into information society. This transition has metamorphosed the world today into a fast and massive transformation in social, cultural, political and economic terms. This transformation process affects almost all organizational structures. One of the structures that is affected of this process is the library with its culturally and socially organizational characteristics as they collect, preserve and disseminate the information and eventually aim to meet the information needs of the society trough massive adoption of ICT. The aim of this study is to examine how libraries adopt ICT in the creation of an information society and to give information on the status of the libraries in the information society.
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    Undergraduate Students’ Awareness and Compliance to Library Rules and Regulations in a Nigerian University.
    (www.iiste.org, 2015) Omosekejimi, Ademola Ferdinand; Ojeme, Thelma Nneka; Eghworo, Obukowho Ruth
    The study investigated undergraduate student’s awareness and compliance to library rules and regulations in Federal University of Petroleum Resources Effurun. The objectives of the study were to find out the awareness/alertness of the undergraduates to the rules and regulations in university libraries, the categories of rules and regulations, the compliance level of the undergraduate students to the existing rules and regulations, the effects of the rules and regulations on library usage as wells as sanctions for defaulting the library rules and regulations. The study adopted a descriptive survey design and random sampling technique was used to select two hundred and twenty respondents in FUPRE university library. Questionnaire was used for data collection while descriptive statistics was used in analyzing the data. The undergraduate students in FUPRE are aware of the rules and regulations in the university libraries and they comply with them very often. The study therefore recommends that: more awareness programmes on the rules and regulations should be created in the university libraries, users should be educated on the need to always comply with the library rules and regulations, stricter measures should be put in place to sanction or penalize any defaulter of library rules and regulations as this will further ensure compliance to the rules and regulations.
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    Usage of electronic information resources (EIRs) by undergraduate students of federal university of petroleum resources, Effurun
    (World Scientific, 2015) OGO, Emuejevoke Paul; Omosekejimi, Ademola Ferdinand; Eghworo, Obukowho Ruth
    This study is conducted to examine the usage of electronic information resources by undergraduate students at the Federal University of Petroleum Resources Effurun’s library, Warri, Nigeria. 267 students in 200 level and above who used the library during the period of the study formed the population for the study. The survey research method was adopted for the study. A questionnaire was used as a data collection instrument. Frequency counts and simple percentages were used in analyzing the data collected. The study revealed that the use of electronic resources has tremendous impact on the academic performances of the undergraduate students of Federal University of Petroleum Resources Effurun; however, there is need for them to acquire more skills in the use of electronic resources.