The Use of Public Web Portals by Undergraduates of Library, Archival and Information Studies Students at the University of Ibadan

Abstract

The research is a survey of the use of public web portals by undergraduate students of the Department of Library, Archival and Information Studies Students of the University of Ibadan. It employed an expost facto design to execute the study. Total populations of 87 students were selected through purposive sampling for the study. Questionnaires were used for collecting data, while frequency counts and simple percentages were used to answer the research questions. Findings of the study revealed that the respondents used different types of public web portals but Yahoo, Google, MSN were mostly used; the respondents used public web portals mostly to retrieve information. E-mail ranked first among the public web portals that the students used. Based on the findings of the study, it is recommended that students should be encouraged to use web portals during their university education program. The issue of power outages should be properly addressed by our government and suggestions for further research were made.