First-time university students lack the practical and complex skills to harness, evaluate, use
and create information to achieve their educational, occupational, social and personal …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop and validate a scale involving the factors
affecting usage of e-resources. Design/methodology/approach The present study identifies …

Law is a profession that thrives on books and derives its sustenance from the power of the
written word. From time immemorial, the library and the legal profession have played …

Access to relevant information determines the quality of life of an individual in society and
the academe. Academic institutions have established information literacy programmes to …

Libraries use orientation as one of the marketing tools to introduce their clientele and
potential patrons to the services and resources at their disposal. However, the means to …

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the usage pattern of electronic resources (e-
resources) among management graduates. The respondents were asked about the types of …

Purpose–Since the education of Master of Science students in the discipline of agriculture is
catalectic without libraries, the present paper seeks to assess the information literacy …

Purpose Present research analyzes and evaluates the impact of e-resources usage factors
(training modes, awareness, influencers, utilitarian benefits and ease of use) towards …

The level of library patronage among accounting students is examined both in a distance
and a contact learning institution in South Africa. We used a structured questionnaire to …

Notwithstanding the wealth of information available in the knowledge economy, many
academic library users still lack essential knowledge and skills to locate materials. This …