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Hamis Lack Abdullah; Winner Dominic Chawinga; George Theodore Chipeta – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2023
Mzuzu University Library provides various e-library services to postgraduate students. However, a minimal amount is known regarding the use of these e-library services by postgraduate students. This mixed methods quantitative study aimed to investigate postgraduate students' use of e-library services. The findings reveal that 95% of postgraduate…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Library Services, User Needs (Information), Academic Libraries
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Huff-Eibl, Robyn; Teetor, Travis – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
This paper describes efforts at the University of Arizona Libraries (UAL) in Tucson to improve access to the Internet and technology during the COVID-19 pandemic and as the libraries continue to adapt to hybrid instructional modalities. The authors highlight how their institution leveraged campus data and new partnerships to better meet students'…
Descriptors: Internet, Access to Computers, Academic Libraries, Library Services
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Hassan Mallam Ibrahim; Kamsuriah Ahmad; Hasimi Sallehudin – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
As the need for digital content increases almost daily, preserving this content for university libraries, especially in the least developed and developing nations, becomes a challenge, resulting in the loss of this data. Even though most of these libraries are automated and adopt one digital preservation strategy or the other, library users need…
Descriptors: Preservation, Technology Uses in Education, Research Libraries, Internet
Condic, Kristine S. – 1995
The growth and influence of the Internet have been phenomenal in the past few years. Academic librarians are faced with a new service for their clientele who, in most cases, will need instruction in order to use the Internet effectively. Many academic libraries are already providing training sessions for their users. A survey of 150 libraries was…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Community Education, Higher Education, Internet
Bertot, John Carlo; And Others – 1996
This 1996 National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) survey gathered data from a national sample of public libraries concerning the current level of public library involvement with the Internet. The purpose of this study was to: (1) provide policymakers, researchers, and library professionals with longitudinal data that…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Costs, Demography, Depository Libraries
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Voorbij, Henk J. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
This study examined the use and perceived importance of the Internet among students and faculty in the Netherlands through questionnaires and focus-group interviews. Highlights include electronic journals, learning to use the Internet, search engines, needed library support, and problems with subject searching. A copy of the questionnaire is…
Descriptors: Electronic Journals, Focus Groups, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
LaPoint, Virginia A. – 1997
Traditionally, libraries have had a role of providing equitable access for those who might not otherwise have access, and this role continues today in implementing access to electronic resources. However, there are special problems in applying this mission to prison libraries. A short history of automation in prison libraries is followed by a…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Information Technology, Internet, Library Automation