EVALUATION OF ELECTRONIC LIBRARY USAGE AT THE FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC IDAH

Abstract

This paper evaluate the level of use and services at electronic library of the Federal Polytechnic, Idah. Survey research methodology was adopted for the study, the population consist the students of the six schools that make up the institution were 500 of them patronizes the library daily. 250 of the population were randomly selected as sample, structured questionnaire was used to collect data for this study, and was analyzed with simple percentage and chi- square (x2). The study revealed that there is great relationship between the level of awareness of resources and services available with their usage. Likewise the hypothesis was rejected indicated that there is great relationship between utilization and extent of usage of the resources. Hypothesis 3, also was rejected because there is existing relationship between resources and purpose of using them. Respondent satisfaction upon the uses of the resources was established as the hypothesis was rejected. Furthermore, the use of the resources and problems encountered was clarify as the hypothesis 5 was rejected to affirm that there are serious constraints to the use of the facilities. The study therefore concluded that there was low level of usage, and cannot justify the huge expenses being expended on the resources. Finally the researcher made some recommendation which includes; creating more awareness strategy on the library resources, GNS course (use of library) should be made to be more ICT compliance etc.