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Challenges Confronting Postgraduate Library and Information Science Student in the use of Electronic Resources in Southern Nigeria
(Libraries at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2016-02-01) Akporhonor, Blessings A.; Akpojotor, Lucky O.
The study aims at identifying the challenging confronting postgraduate library and information science student in the use of electronic resources in Southern-Nigeria. The descriptive survey design was adopted for this study. The census sampling technique was adopted for this study. Thus, the entire population of three hundred and seventy (375) postgraduate students of library and information science student in Southern Nigeria was used as the respondents for this study. The questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection. The simple percentage statistical tool was used to answer the research question. The finding revealed that poor internet connectivity epileptic power supply, information overload, high cost of access, download delay and difficulty in accessing some websites are some of the problems militating against the use of electronic information resources by postgraduate students of library and information science student on Southern Nigeria. Based on the findings, the study recommended that power supply should be improved upon, internet providers should improve their network services, cost of accessing electronic information resources should be subsidize to a minimum so as to make them affordable.