5 Preferred websites used by students at the virtual hall

5 PREFERRED WEBSITES USED BY STUDENTS AT THE VIRTUAL HALL

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ONWUMBIKO JOY:                                  2009206014P

IMUERO PATIENCE:                                2009206013F

IHRIEROMA CORDELIA:                         2009206007F

IGBONWELUNDU THEOPHILUS:           2009206006P

          Following growing trends in the internet world a great number of students make use of the virtual hall instead of the main library. They make use of different types of websites like www.facebook.com, www.google.com, www.wikipedia.com, www.yahoo.com and www.unizikeduportal.com etc.

        A five day visit to the virtual hall revealed to us that some websites are preferred more than others. We gathered the record using interviews, observation and check-list. A sample of 70 students out of the students who use the hall each day for 5 days are ranked by us as follows:

1.                www.google.com

2.                www.wikipedia.com

3.                www.unizikeduportal.com

4.                www.yahoo.com

5.                www.facebook.com

REASONS GIVEN BY STUDENTS FOR THE PREFERENCE

1.                www.google.com

Those students who prefer the use of this website said it is the most popular of all websites, faster, simpler to use and more accurate in its information materials. Also it is most convenient and gives related items to topics being searched.

2.                www.wikipedia.com

Those of the students that prefer this website said it gives more detailed results on topics. Irrespective of its ‘weaknesses’, the results are in simple language, elaborate and easy to comprehend.

3.                www.unizikeduportal.com

Students said they use this website mainly for university related matters. They use it to check their result online. They also use it to get to journals published by the school. According to them, they also use it for online registration of courses.

4.                www.yahoo.com

The virtual hall users said that they prefer using this website especially for accessing their electronic mails. They use it to send and receive mails.

5.                www.facebook.com

Most of the students are on facebook. So they said they use the website for social interaction and sharing of ideas with their friends, and relatives. They also use it for uploading and sharing of pictures with others in the internet. Most importantly they use the site for finding new friends and reaching the old ones.

5 MOST PREFERED WEBSITES USED BY STUDENTS THAT USE VISTUAL HALL.

The 5 most preferred websites by student that visual hall.






ONE DAY REPORT BY:

CHUKWUMA, NKIRUKA ADAEZE

REG NO: 2009206008P

IDOKO FLORENCE

REG NO: 2009206010

IBE, PETER

REG NO: 2009206002



INTRODUCTION



Today, there is an exponential growth in knowledge and information. It has been the traditional responsibilities of libraries to collect organize, preserve and retrieve records of human achievements.

With the advances of information and communication technologies, electronic information in the form of electronic books, electronic journals and internet has launches the world into an information age. No institution or organization can skill rely on only traditional printed information resources to perform effective and efficiently. To librarians, ICT is a significant development that provides tools for managing the avalanche of information generated by modern society.

University Library of Nnamdi Azikiwe University is not left out, It is now connected to internet to support the learning, teaching and research in order to achieve the objective of its parent institutions in this information age.



The 5 most preferred websites by students that uses visual hall of University library and the reasons why they use them.

www.Google .com ranked 1st

www.Wikipedia.com ranked 2nd

www.Unzikcampuspostal .com ranked 3rd

www.Yahoo.com ranked 4th

www.Facebook.com ranked 5th

The reasons they gave are as follows:

1. www.google.com: This is the most used websites by student using visual hall.



a. It offers more opportunities than other websites because they uses it

access other websites.

b. It is fast to provide answers to their information need.

c. It is easy to use.

d. It is what comes into their mind at that time of their search.

e. They saw other students using it so they decided to use it to search for their information needs.

f. Some of them said that they don’t have any reason whatsoever.

2. www.wikipedia.com:

a. It access information very fast.

b. It is easy to use.

c. It gives answer to their information needs.



3. www.unizikcampusporal.com:

a. It is used to check for their semesters result online.

b. It is used to process the payment of their school fees on line.

c. It is used to register for a new academic session.



4. www.yahoo.com:

a. It is used to send and access their electronic mails.

b. It is also used to access for their information needs.

5. www.facebook.com:

a. It is used to communicate with families and friends.

b. They used it linked to their friends whom they have lost contact with.

General observation:

We observed breakdown of network most of time, it either cannot find server or

Page cannot display.



Methods used in the investigation:

1. Oral interview

2. Observation

Preferred websites used by the students at the NUA library's virtual hall

GROUP FOUR (4), DAY 4

THE FIVE (5) MOSTLY USED WEBSITES BY THE STUDENTS WHO USE THE NNAMDI AZIKIWE UNIVERSITY'S LIBRARY VIRTUAL HALL.

WRITTEN BY;

INAYA EVELYN                        2009206012P
MBAKWE FLOSSIE                   ---------------
OFFOR CHIMEZIE C.                2009206001P
UDEM, OBIORA KINGSLEY    2009206005P

Our recent visit to Nnamdi Azikiwe University  Digital  Library's  Virtual hall  to  find out the five (5) mostly use websites by the student who use the virtual hall and their reasons why they prefer the website  revealed the following.

(NB. The websites are ranked from 1- 5. Rank 1 is the most use site while rank 5 is the least use site)

1. www.google.com
    Out of 55 students that were browsing in the virtual hall at that moment, 51 students said, they use
    this site. Their reasons are as follows:
    a. It is user friendly. They said it is user friendly because they use it to gain access to other websites
        especially when they do not know the full website address.
    b. Familiarity. Most of the students said that they are more familiar with the site and as a result they do not
        have knowledge about any other search engine site.
    c. It gives more information than any other search engine site and as a result they preferred it for writing 
        their assignment.
    d. It is the best search engine site that has answer to every question.
    e. It gives more detailed information than any other search engine site.


2. www.wikipedia.org
    38 out of 55 students in the virtual hall at that moment said they use this website. their reasons are
    as follows:
    a. It contains information on all subjects and for that reason, they preferred using it to write their
        assignment.
    b. It links together with google. That is, they said that whenever they type question in google, it must give
        them an answer that will link them to wikipedia.
    c. It gives detailed information.

3. www.yahoo.com
   Out of the 55 students present at that moment, 20 students said they use this site. Their reasons are as
    follows.
   a. They used it to check their electronic mail especially to find out when they receive feeds/ junk mail from
       other websites they visited and registered with. for example, facebook, twitter, hi5, sports sites, etc.
   b. A few number of students said, they use it as search engine.

4. Nnamdi Azikiwe University Library's Digital library's Home page (http://196.207.141.2)
    About 17 students out of 55 present at that moment said, they use this site. their reasons are as
    follows:
    a. They access it in order  to read articles in the e-journal especially their departmental e-journal.
    b. They preferred using it especially when the digitals library server is down.

5. http://www.facebook.com/
   12 out of 55 students present at that moment said they use this website.Their reasons are as follows:
    a. They use it to connect with their friends and loved ones.
    b. They use it to share their feelings, invite friends for occasions/ celebrations especially birthday, exchange
        ideas, etc.

NOTE
Our research does not base only on what students said, we witnessed/ observed them accessing the websites.