Abstract
A Nigerian private university is newly venturing into p ostgraduate study programs and has an enrolled postgraduate student population of about a hundred. This study evaluates the postgraduate students’ use of library; their information format preference, internet access and electronic resources used in their various research activities. Data collected fr om 48 postgraduate stude nts using structured questionnaire, and was analyzed using frequency, percentage, bar chart and pie chart. Findings indicate that the study group has regular access to the internet , and preferred using free online resources from Google and Wikipedia to institutionally subscribed academic online resources in databases such as HINARI, EBSCO Host, Questia , JSTOR and High Beam.This shows that technology alone cannot help bring about the required changes in provision of information to users. Users’ attitude and practices need to change while a cademic library policies need to include users’ training on information searching skills and aggressive marketing of library resources to users.Key Words: Electronic, Resources, Internet, Access, Library, Use, Postgraduate, Students, Private, University, Nigeria.
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