Adoption of Digital Information Resources and Students’ Academic Activities in Nigerian Federal University Libraries Wada, I.; Mohammed, A.B; Saka, K.A

Abstract

This study investigated the adoption of Digital Information Resources as correlates of Academic Activities of students in Federal universities in Nigeria. The study was guided by two research questions and one hypothesis tested at 0.05 alpha level. Survey research designed was adopted and 306 respondents, determined from population of 1,695 in 12 selected Federal universities in Nigeria, were involved in the study. Questionnaire was used for data collection. Descriptive statistics such as frequency count, percentage (%), mean score and standard deviation as well as inferential statistic such as Chi-Square Test of Independence with Cramer’s V (Pearson's chi-squared statistic) were used to determine and test hypothesis at 0.05 level of confidence. The findings of the study revealed that e-books, e-journals, e-conference proceedings, e-magazines, e-greys, e-newspapers, e-theses/dissertations, and multimedia resources were adopted by the students while reading for tests and examinations, writing seminar papers, workshop papers, conference papers, articles, projects/theses/dissertations, and class assignments. The study concludes that there is relationship between students’ adoption of digital information resources and their academic activities X2 (1) < 23.625a, P = .001), and that the relationship is positive but weak (φc =.278, P = .001). The study recommends that free and high-speed internet service should be made available in the library and emails should be used to select and disseminate titles of articles and books to students to strengthen their adoption of digital information resources with their academic activities.