Desmond Notalelomwan EWEMADE

This study was designed to identify roles of academic libraries in promoting information literacy skills for lifelong learning amongst undergraduates of UNIBEN. Four research questions were raised and analyzed for the purpose of the study. The descriptive survey was used to survey all the two hundred and eleven (211) Professional, Para-Professional and Non-Professional Library Staff at John Harris Library, University of Benin, Benin, Edo State. The instrument used for data collection was the questionnaire and it was analyzed using frequency and simple percentage. The results revealed the internet resources used by undergraduate student during COVID 19 era. It also shows the influence of internet resources on information seeking behavior of undergraduates during covid 19 era and the extent of use of internet resources by undergraduate students for seeking of information. Based on the result, it was recommended that internet tools used for information retrieval should be maintained and used so that library staff can focus on other things. Students should be disciplined when using the internet for academic purpose as distractions is inevitable when using the internet. Finance also has a stronghold on the use of internet resources, ranging from bandwidth, power supply etc. Proper measures should be put into considerations to ensure the smooth use of the internet resources. In order to save the patron's time, library professionals should respond to user queries as soon as possible when the nature of the problem to be answered is complex. Poor internet connections also have an impact on student’s information-seeking behavior. Libraries and students should subscribe to a reliable and internet service provider or better still have options where one internet service provider is down for a moment, in such scenario, one can easily switch to the next internet service provider (ISP).