Information Literacy, an Investigation into Students’ Access and Use of Information in an Academic Institution in Ghana

Table 3.

Achieving Purpose of Visiting the library

Finding Needed Information in the library

  Yes No Total
Purpose of Visiting library Freq % Freq % Freq %
Visit the library to read my notes 61 70.9 25 29.1 86 100.0
For reading of story books 16 84.2 3 15.8 19 100.0
For reading textbooks 43 70.5 18 29.5 61 100.0
For research on coursework 74 68.5 34 31.5 108 100.0
 looking for specific information when needed 39 78.0 11 22.0 50 100.0
To read news papers 2 33.3 4 66.7 6 100.0


Source: Field Survey (2019)