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ABSTRACT

This research examined multimedia resources and library utilization by medical students in selected Nigerian universities. 3 purposes of the study, 3 research questions and 3 research hypotheses were formulated for the research. The design for this research was descriptive survey research design. The area of the study consisted of selected federal universities in Nigeria to include university of Benin, University of Calabar, University of Nigeria Nsukka, University of Port Harcourt and University of Uyo. The population stood at 385 medical students who are registered with the libraries in the study area, while Krejcie and Morgan table for determining sample size was used to arrive at a sample of 196 for this research. A researcher- developed instruments titled “Multimedia Resources and Library Utilization Questionnaire” (MRLUQ) was used for data collection. Completed copies of the questionnaire were collected back by the researchers while Mean and standard deviation was used for answering the research questions and dependent t-test was used to test the null hypotheses at .05 level of significance. At the end of the research, it was discovered that text, audio and video resources have significant influence on medical student utilization of libraries in Nigerian universities but image resources do not have a significant influence on medical students’ utilization of libraries.

KEYWORDS; Multimedia resources, text resources, video resources, audio resources, image resource, medical students, Nigerian universities, utilization of libraries.