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.