WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT LIBRARY DATABASES By: Sylvester Israel Ebhonu, CLN didigitallibrarian@gmail.com ; ebhonu-lib@adun.edu.ng Admiralty University of Nigeria Library Coordinator INTRODUCTION “… I knew I needed help, because when I go to the internet to browse or look for answers to my assignments, I see a lot of things there and I find it difficult to fish out what I need from what I don’t need. I got frustrated one day in the library until a Librarian came to my aid…” The quote above is an experience of one of our University Library users. There is nothing as frustrating for a student or researcher than the experience of searching the internet for information and getting either nothing or just junks from blogs as results. Some of these frustrating challenges are obvious: Poor information literacy skills Not knowing the best source of information (internet, search engine, database, textbooks, directories, encyclopedia, etc.) that meets a particular researc...
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