The Awareness And Uses Of Library Electronic Databases By Lecturers In University Libraries

CHAPTER FIVE
                            SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
5.1     INTRODUCTION
This chapter contains the summary of the study, Conclusions and some recommendations put forward.
5.2     SUMMARY OF THE STUDY
The study focuses on availability and uses of electronic databases by lecturers of selected colleges (COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND I.C.T) in kwara state university, malete. It is based on the fact that lecturers require electronic information service provision to keep up to date with modern methods of research and teaching and that these sources of information are available for use.
The research questions sought to among others find out the availability and uses of E-database by lecturers of selected colleges of kwara state universities, Malete. the extent of the usage of E-database by lecturers of , level of awareness and availability of E-database in the `library , including the management challenges .
Descriptive survey method was employed in the conduct of this study .A total of 40 respondents representing 81.6% of the total population were used for this study. The instrument used for the data collection was questionnaire: The data collected for the study were presented and analysis using for the descriptive survey frequency distribution tables, percentages were used for descriptive survey to determine the area of difference among the respondents of the college of education and college of ICT in Kwara State University ,Malete.The study found out that AGORA,AJOL,HINARI,EBCOHOST,JSTOR,DOAJ,OARE and ARDI among others were the types of library electronic information resources available and utilized in the library of kwara state University, Malete
5.3     CONCLUSION
In view of the findings of the study, it could be concluded that the provision of electronic databases will continue to have a great impact on research and academic environment. Libraries will attract greater patronage when high quality collections on both print and electronic resources are made available.
Based on the findings of the study, it could be also concluded that majority of library users were not utilizing the available electronic information resources being promoted by the libraries due to lack of awareness of their availability, lack of information literacy skills and problems associated with the resources such as epileptic power supply, slow internet connectivity, insufficient computer skills. Therefore, they need greater promotion of available electronic information resources and training on how to make use of the available electronic resources in the institution libraries in order to improve their teaching and research activities.
There is no doubt that if all of the library users would be aware of the existence and availability electronic information resources, there would be high usage, higher quality of teaching and research activities.
5.4     RECOMMENDATION
Based on the major findings and conclusion of this study, the following recommendations are strongly made:
In view of the huge academic and research purpose, there is need for the university library to be well equipped with updated electronic resources of its usefulness  to learning, teaching and research.
1. Kwara state university’s library should subscribe to more electronic resources such as UGCINFONET, PROQUEST, LANTEAL and OPAC in order to increase the availability.
2. In order to increase the usability awareness of available electronic information resources there is need for libraries to organize orientation programmes and training on how to use the electronic resources to both the lecturers and other library users.
3. The university library should promote more electronic resources such as LANTEAL, PROQUEST, UGCINFONENT, OPAC among others so as to increase the extent at which lecturers will utilize them.
4. There is a need for greater promotion on the purpose for usage of available electronic databases by organizing information literacy programmes so as to increase the extent of utilization.
5. The college Libraries should be upgraded with all modern of information communication technology facilities, WiFi access or good internet connection, adequate computers and also educate the users on computer skills and adequate awareness about the available database, stable source of electricity with unlimited access to the available electronic resources so as to reduce the challenges users encounter and enable maximum utilization of the facilities available. The staff of the college library, ICT Staff, or Computer centers must have the necessary skills to assist the library users and other researchers when they face any problem in utilization of electronic information resources.