AWARENESS AND EXTENT OF USAGE OF E-BOOKS IN UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

The article assessed usage of Electronic books in Delta State University, Abraka and Novena University, Ogume, Nigeria. Undergraduate students were randomly selected for the study. The population of the study was 253 300 and 400 level students of the institutions studied. The instrument employed for data collection was the questionnaire. The 253 students were administered the research tool but 231 of them were retrieved and used for the investigation. The collected data were examined using the frequency count and percentage. The study concluded that the respondents use the e-books to a very high extent; in terms of frequency of usage, the study concluded that on the average, utilization of e-books by the students was weekly; the greatest challenges to e-book provision and usage were insufficient e-books in the library and power supply in that order. Therefore, aggressive e-book collection development is here suggested. Academic Libraries should make e-books readily available and easily reached so as to encourage more, the use of the resources