INTERNET USE PATERNS AND ICT LITERACY SKILL AMONG LIBRARY USERS IN AJAYI CROWTHER UNIVERSITY, OYO OYO STATE, NIGERIA.

Internet use pattern and ICT Literacy Skill Among Library Users IN AJAYI CROWTHER UNIVERSITY, OYO This study was intend to examine internet to examine internet use patterns and ICT Literacy Skill Among Library users in Ajayi Crowther University. This study was guided by the following objectives: ICT AVAILABILITY AND ACCESSIBILITY Considering the numerous advantages of ICT, and its. Vital role in teaching, research and learning, across the globe, ICT availability, becomes an indispensable part of educational infrastructure. It is equally true that the growth and development of electronic publication is reshaping the nature of collection and mode of delivering and accessing information in libraries ICT DEVICES AND THEIR CREATIVE APPLICATION This has without doubt transformed the quality of users’ academic outcomes by improving the effectiveness of teaching, learning and research activities in the university. There is higher preference in the information age for utilizing digital libraries which is the reason, internet allows wide range of materials to be accessed by people across the globe irrespective of their locations. Internet is an information resources medium that allow access to a wide range of materials from around the world to a local machine. It is also a publishing medium which allows access to a large pool of information which was not possible in the past, thereby reducing the information gap between the students in developed and developing countries.it is users friendly, fast and enable access to information from anywhere around the world with time limitation. The study employed the descriptive and explanatory design; questionnaires in addition to library research loaves applied in order to collect data. Primary and secondary data sources were used and data was analyzed using the chi square statistical tool at 5% level of significance which was presented in frequency tables and percentage.