Use of electronic information resources by academic at Umm al-Qura university, Saudi Arabia

Abstract EN

The Current study is an overview of scholarly staff use of the electronic information resources at Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia.

An electronic structured questionnaire sent by the Information Technology Deanship was used for information accumulation while SPSS was utilized for information examination.

A sum of 229 scholarly staff were react to the electronic survey.

The findings demonstrated that dominant part of the examined scholars utilized of library electronic information resources.

The findings additionally demonstrated that the electronic information resources were accessible at the library and were utilized for research and lecture purposes.

It was likewise found that the scholarly staff supported the electronic resources for research because it is less costly, easy to access, more useful, and time saving.

Factors hindering effective use of the library electronic information resources include slow download and lack of computer systems.

The study recommends to provide more training for academic staff in order to obtain effective use of library electronic resources.