Awareness and Utilization of Scholarly e-Resources by Student-librarians: Implication for the Realization of the UN Sustainable Development Goal

Onwubiko Emmanuel Chidiadi

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Awareness and Utilization of Scholarly e-Resources by Student-librarians: Implication for the Realization of the UN Sustainable Development Goal

Onwubiko Emmanuel Chidiadi

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The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can be realized through teaching, research and innovation and use of e-resources especially the scholarly type offers quality academic resources which contribute greatly to teaching, research and innovation This study therefore, investigated student-librarians’ level of awareness of the existence of electronic resources as well as the extent at which they utilize these resources and the implication for the realization of the UN set sustainable development goals. The study employed a descriptive survey design with a sampled population of 100 student-librarians derived from four universities in Southeast, Nigeria offering Library and Information Science while it was guided by four research questions formulated in line with the research objectives. The main instrument used to gather data for this study is a 4-point Likert scale structured questionnaire that had items on student-librarians’ level of awareness and extent of utilization of e-resources as well as challenges in the utilization of e-resources by the students. The data collected were analyzed using frequency and percentages. The outcome of this study brings to fore the importance of the awareness of e-resources to enhancing research and innovation among student-librarians. The result further revealed that despite efforts by academic institutions to make scholarly e-resources available, they seem to be under-utilized by student-librarians and by extension students. The study among others recommended more practical training for student-librarians as well as librarians so as to familiarize them with several scholarly e-resources and their functionalities as it will assist student-librarians, stakeholders and policy makers comprehend how to harness human capital by ensuring quality education through the optimal utilization of scholarly e-resources for teaching, research and innovation as well as need for academic libraries to carry out from time-to-time, publicity of their services that they know are beneficial to the student as well as current awareness services with a view to alerting the students of the availability of new e-resources.

Published in	International Journal of Information and Communication Sciences (Volume 7, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijics.20220701.11
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Student-librarians, Awareness, Utilization, Scholarly E-resources, Research, Teaching, Innovation, Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs)

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