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Item The use of electronic resources by postgraduate students of the University of Cape Coast(Library Philosophy and Practice, 2018-02) Ankrah, E.; Atuase, D.Developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have radically taken over every sphere of activity in university libraries. Academic libraries owe it a key duty to keep pace with technological advancement in order to cope with users’ continual sophisticated information requirements. The main purpose of this study was to examine the use of electronic resources by postgraduate students of the University of Cape Coast, and with a view of giving recommendations based on findings. The major objectives of the study are: (1) To determine postgraduate students’ awareness of electronic resources in the library. (2) To find out the frequency of usage of e-resources by students. (3) To determine the computer literacy level of postgraduate students. And (4) To identify the likely problems in the utilization of electronic resources by postgraduate students. The findings revealed that most of the postgraduate students were aware of the e-resources in the library. The findings of this study also revealed that most postgraduate students rather preferred to access information from Google scholar, and other web based databases more frequently than the databases in the library. The respondents identified poor internet connection as the most significant constrained for ineffective access e-resources.Item The Use of Electronic Resources by Postgraduate Students of the University of Cape Coast(University of Ghana, 2016-07) Atuase, D.; Akussah, H.; Ankrah, E.; College of Education School of Information and Communication StudiesAcademic libraries have become one stop information access points for members of the university and its community. In keeping pace with technological trends, academic libraries are focusing on the larger social and spatial context; through provision of electronic information resources for both local and remote users to enhance access to local and global information for the promotion of social, economic and political development in the society. The study sought to examine the use of electronic resources by postgraduate students of University of Cape Coast. The cross-sectional survey design was adopted for the study. Simple random sampling technique was adopted to select 275 respondents out of 915 postgraduate students from four colleges. The questionnaire was the sole instrument used for data collection and that gave rise to a response rate of 91.63%. The responses from the respondents were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22. The findings of the study revealed that postgraduate students were aware of few individual e-resources in the library through orientation and seminar/workshop programmes. The study also showed that training on e-resources was inadequate, hence students had limited skills to access e-resources and relied on library staff for assistance. Major limitations were poor internet connection, inadequate computers, power outages and limited titles and power outage. Library management should promote e-resources extensively through social networking channels like Web 0.2 or Library 0.2 technologies; Training on e-resources should be organized at the beginning of each semester so that students do not rely solely on library staff for information; the university administration should increase bandwidth on campus so that students can readily access online e-resources.