Catalogue by Students of Obafemi Awolowo University , Ile-Ife , Nigeria
@inproceedings{Fabunmi2017CatalogueBS, title={Catalogue by Students of Obafemi Awolowo University , Ile-Ife , Nigeria}, author={O. M. Fabunmi}, year={2017} }
This study investigated the awareness and use of Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) by students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. A questionnaire was distributed to 800 students at various faculties and in different levels of studies in August 2012. Five hundred and twenty copies of the questionnaire was retrieved and used for the study. The study revealed that 68.7 % of the respondents were aware of the OPAC services; students who were aware of the library OPAC and did not use it to…
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