Use of library e-resources among the final year students of LIS; Based on university of Kelaniya

Abstract

The research problem of this study is do final year LIS students of university of Kelaniya use library electronic resources? And the objectives are this study were to identifying the use of e-resources among LIS students, to identifying the purposes of using e-resources by LIS students, to identifying the benefits to use e-resources LIS students and to identifying the problems using e-resources used by LIS Students. As a research method have used survey research method. Used primary sources for data collection. Main primary sources was questioners and interview. Used MS Excel software for data analizing.The main finding of this study was that students studying library science at the University of Kelaniya have some understanding of the electronic information sources available in the library. And they use these electronic sources to obtain information for their studies and research. A detailed result of this study was discussed and recommendations were made to improve and enhance the usage of e-resources.