Graduate Students' Perception and Utilization of Research Commons (RCs) in the University of Ghana Central Library (Balme Library), Legon
Keywords:
Students' Perception, Balme Library, University of Ghana, Research CommonsAbstract
The paper mainly focused on graduate research students' needs and expectations
in terms of use of facilities and services of a Research Commons (RCs) at the
University of Ghana, Legon. The study used survey research design. Data
collection methods used was a convenient sampling to select a sample size of 200
out of 1,460 registered graduate student patrons of the RCs. In all, 190 completed
questionnaires were retrieved, giving a response rate of 95%. The study shows
that, on the whole, the RCs established barely six months ago is a great success
and is putting the library back at the centre of graduate learning and research
at the University of Ghana.
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