Problems and prospects of electronic resources usage in Nigerian academic libraries

摘要

This work dealt with the problems and prospects of electronic information resources in Nigeria. It was obvious from the review that the use of e-resources is not problem-free in Nigeria. Amongst others, it was pointed out that acquisition and maintenance cost, availability of electronic information resources gadgets, spare parts and experts, erratic power supply, are major problems militating against the effective use and usability of e-resources. It was also seen that though there are numerous problems plaguing the use of e-resources in Nigeria yet there are also numerous positive prospects; with emphasis that the use of e-resources will increase immensely; possibly, e-resources are likely to send print-resource on parking or the barest minimal use. These positive prospects were as a result of the numerous advantages that e-resources have over the print.