Abstract:
The study was carried out to determine how beneficial the Information Literacy Workshops have
been to the staff of University for Development Studies (UDS). The study was conducted at the
Navrongo Campus of UDS which houses two faculties: Applied and Mathematical Sciences. The
study used the survey research method and a purposive sampling procedure to sample the
lecturers for a period of two weeks in May 2014. The main instrument for data collection was a
questionnaire. The study found out that generally there is a high level of ICT skills among the
lecturers in computer usage. The study further established that for the past decade, lecturers have
been using e-resources but less frequently. The study also revealed that majority 88.9% of
lecturers make significant use of the databases especially Science Direct mostly for educational
/teaching purposes while 73.3% of them do so by accessing and using full text journal articles. It
also came out clearly that lecturers found the e-resources training very beneficial with a majority
75.6% asking for more training two or three times in a year. It then identified challenges lectures
face in using e-resources include: download delays, failure to find the information, frequent
power outages and inadequate search skills
