Students’ Perceptions of a Library, Self-Access and the Internet

Abstract

University students are supposed to be able to search for information by themselves. To help students learn this important skill, a resourcing task was then assigned to the first year students. This paper shows the students’ attitudes and perceptions towards searching from three information resources, namely, a library, a self-access centre and the Internet. A questionnaire was used to survey the students’ opinion towards the three resources after completing the task. This task can increase the students’ confidence in using the resources and raise their perceptions towards the resources as well.