Effective Use of Library Resources: A Case Study of Business Students of Koforidua Polytechnic, Ghana

Abstract

The study presents evaluation of students’ utilization of koforidua Polytechnic library information resources.  3,120 copies of the research questionnaire were administered to registered Business Studies student of the institution. A total of 3000 were retrieved representing 96.1% return rate. Findings indicated that 82.0% of the respondents are aware of the availability of library resources; 58.6% make effective use of the resources, while 61.4% had difficulty retrieving materials from shelves. The study also revealed that 63.3% of the respondents visit the library to read lecture notes while 57.3% do not use the library resources because they depend on lectures notes. There is need for information literacy course to be included in the curriculum of the institution that would expose students to the library information resources as well as help to students to cultivate the habit of library use for long life learning.

Keywords: key words, Academic Libraries, Library Use, Business Information, Information Literacy, Library Resources