Online arabic information resources utilization by the academics in Ahmadu Bello University Zaria and Bayero University Kano: A study

This study was set out to investigate the Extent of Satisfaction of Online Arabic Information Resources Utilization by Academics in the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and Bayero University Kano.

In order to achieve this objective, 5 research questions were formulated and two hypotheses were tested at 0.05. A survey method was employed in the conduct of this study. The entire population was used for this study, which was made up of all the academics teaching Arabic and Islamic Studies in ABU Zaria and BUK. A well-structure questionnaire was administered to 126 of Academics in both ABU Zaria and BUK with a total of 79 (62.7%) copies returned. The data collected for the study were presented and analyzed using both descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Frequency distribution tables, percentages and histograms were also used for the descriptive statistics while One Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and T-test were used to test the one hypothesis formulated and determine the areas of differences among the Academics teaching Arabic and Islamic Studies in both Universities.

It was discovered that 80% and 100% of the respondents found were not satisfied due to lack of information literacy skill and other problems associated with accessing the resources due to lack of awareness of the availability and lack of information literacy skill(s). It was recommended that the university library should take a leading role to create more awareness among Academics on how to access and use of online databases made available to them by conducting training and retraining programmes, organizing workshops, seminars, and conferences so as to increase the level of utilisation and satisfaction of resources and services