Undergraduate Students’ Perceptions, Usefulness and Awareness about Electronic Library Section of Basug Library

The aim of this study is to determine the undergraduate students’ perceptions toward BASUG e-library section as well as their awareness and usage of the BASUG e-library resources and services. In order to come up with meaningful findings, a self-report online questionnaire-item was developed and sent to the group of undergraduate students via their emails for quick responses and less time-consuming. The findings showed that, majority of the undergraduate students; about 69 percent do not use BASUG e-library section. They mostly indicated that they only visit the other sections of the library to avail themselves with the hard copy resources and some even  affirmed that their inability to access electronic resources as their reasons for not attending the e-section.; Very few of them commented that sometimes they access e-resources offline to benefit themselves. The study shows that the gender and ages of the respondents have significant effects on attending e-library section. This research recommended the teaching of information literacy skills among undergraduate students as the number one priority followed by introducing commercial services such as student’s online registrations activities, type settings or proof readings services and other services that will attract students to frequent visit of e-library section.