Chapter 1

THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

Introduction

The development of computer and network technology is quiet challenging now

days. Technology changes the education pattern and transforming the learning process

to digital environment. Libraries today are complex institutions with multiple roles and a

host of related operations and services developed over the years, yet their fundamental

purpose has remained the same, to provide access to trustworthy, authoritative

knowledge. Accordingly, academic libraries along with their private and governmental

counterparts have long stood unchallenged throughout the world as the primary

providers of recorded knowledge and historical record. This will be the example of these

three libraries such as CFNR Library (academic), ERDB (special library and a private

sector), and lastly the FPDRI (government institution). These modern libraries are facing

such circumstances where it is not enough what you have in your library. What is

important is that library is able to provide the information needed. It is obviously

changing the pattern of how the publishers, librarians, and readers in managing the

information, preserve it for longer purposes and lastly for retrieval of information. With

the help of consortium that described as a group of organization who come together to

fulfill their objectives that requires sharing of resources and cooperation, it will surely has

a great impact to both libraries.

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REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES

A review of literature is aimed at contributing to a clearer understanding of the

nature and its meaning of the problem that has been identified. According to Fink (2005),

literature review as a systematic, explicit, and reproducible method for identifying,

evaluating, and synthesizing the existing body of completed and recorded work

produced by researchers, scholars, and practitioners. A literature review involves

identifying relevant literature or sources of relevant information (bibliographic access),

physically accessing the most relevant literature (document delivery), reading and

analysing these works and writing up the literature review.

Access and use of E-Resources

Access will be as good as the resources which can be afforded with number of

computers and existence of network systems, the ability to work with tools, and the

network infrastructure that supports rapid and convenient connections

(Sivasubramaniyan and Batcha, 2012b). The ability to use e-resources efficiently

depends on the basis of computer skills, knowledge of what is available and how to use

it, and the ability to define a research problem. Academic faculties, apart from the work

of teaching and research, must know how to access information. Computer literate

faculty academics may feel more comfortable using e-resources and thus gain more

from using them.

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METHODOLOGY

This chapter presents the methods of research used, population, sample size

and sampling technique, research instrument, statistical treatment and data gathering

procedure use in the study.

Method of research to be used

The study will be using descriptive survey method, particularly the formal

interview where the respondents were asked questions from a carefully prepared

interview schedule and their answers were recorded in standardized form. Questionnaire

will also used to gather data to researchers, librarians, faculty and students. There are

two types of research methods, namely; qualitative which involves interviews and

documentaries, and quantitative which involves the collection of numerical data using

questionnaires. The study will be using Quantitative methods. Quantitative research

requires careful thought at the onset; it requires mental agility, flexibility and alertness

during data collection; it calls for advances skills in data management and text driven

creativity during the analysis and write-up (Davies, 2007: 9).

Source of Data

The total population of students in three participating libraries is 781, 268

researchers, 67 faculty and 11 librarians. Using the slovins formula and proportional

sampling the sample size is 595.