Abstract:
The study investigated the use of electronic resources by graduate students of the University of Ghana to find students awareness of electronic resources in the university library, “frequency of use of these resources and challenges” associated with the use of these resources.
A survey methodology was employed for the study with a population of 302 Regular “MBA” students from the University of Ghana Business School. A sample size of 100 was used and the .Convenient Sampling Technique was used to generate the sample for the study. A questionnaire was used to solicit data and SPSS software “was used to” analyze collected data.
The findings indicated that although students are aware of electronic resources, they do not fully utilize them due to challenges such as slow access speed, lack of searching skills, limited subscribed titles and difficulty in finding relevant information. The findings also revealed that students find electronic resources to be very significant in their academics as it helps to expand their knowledge-base and helps them retrieve information with ease for research/project work and for answering assignment questions.
Indeed, electronic resources have boosted teaching, learning and research work and in order to ensure its maximum utilization, more efforts must be put in place by the School authorities to create awareness and to equip students with the needed skills to enhance the effective and efficient use of these resources.
