Title: Essentials of Electronic Information Resources for Information Service Delivery in Academic Libraries in the Contemporary Society
Author(s): Dalhatu Abdullahi Shehu; Mohammed Bello Ahmed; Abdullahi Abubakar Dewa
Publication Year: 2023; Volume 18, Issue 1, pages 39-45

The advent of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) had brought unprecedented growth within the academic community especially with explosion of electronic information resources (EIRs) which has made a clear impact in almost every area of academic task and information service delivery. As such, the academic libraries have undergone a rapid change leading to new ways of information acquisition, generation and dissemination. It’s based on this, the paper highlights on the concepts of electronic information resources, organization of electronic information resources in academic libraries. The paper also discussed the benefits of electronic information resources in information service delivery in academics and challenges facing the access and use electronic resources in information service delivery. The paper concluded that, various types of EIRs, benefits and challenges were identified and discussed which available academic libraries are for accessed and used the resources in their learning and research activities. The paper advocated for prompt strategic means to improve access and use of the resources through information literacy skills users training in this era. The paper recommended that, more funds should be allocated to service infrastructure to enhance and upgrade technical architecture for easy access to EIRs.