The Reality of Library E-resources Acceptance by Postgraduate students of Digital School of virtual and Open Learning, Kenyatta University, Kenya

Abstract

Research has shown in the recent past that many Universities globally are building state of the art libraries and at the same time stocking them with e-resources, in order to cater for the ever growing population of users who are pursuing their studies on or off campus. Postgraduate students pursuing their courses off campus are entitled to full use of all library services. In light of this, the study investigated the library e-resources acceptance by postgraduate students who pursue their studies off campus. The study was conducted at Kenyatta University Post Modern Library (PML) and it involved Postgraduate students of the Kenyatta University Digital School. The study used descriptive design and data were collected through questionnaires with both open and closed ended questions were used to collect data from postgraduate students and interview schedule was used to collect data from librarians. The questionnaires were administered electronically through electronic mails.