Growth of Electronic Resources
The most rapidly changing pervasive and publicized aspects of library and
information studies are the electronic resources. In a relatively short period of the
time, Electronic resource have expanded from a few dozen computerized
bibliographies databases to include the over whelming information available on the
Internet use of Electronic resource has moved from accessing online databases
with a dumb terminal to surfing the world wide web with a high speed multimedia
personal computer that has more power than the early main frame computers.
The complexity of electronic resource has grown to comprise of library online
catalogue list of CD-Rom, online journals, database, newspapers, reference
materials open access journals, e-books, major publishers and online bookshops
amounting to the Electronic resource is not easy, or so it appears, at the same
time there is a pressing need for guidance in the use of such resources