Use and awareness of Electronic Information Services by students at Glasgow Caledonian University: a longitudinal study.

The article focuses on the use and awareness of Electronic Information Services (EIS) by the students of Glasgow University. Interest in the usage of EIS by students at Glasgow University developed out of an earlier project, which focused specifically on the use of library and information services by staff and researchers. This led to contacts with the School of Information Management at Leeds Metropolitan University where similar work had been done and to a joint interest in student usage of EIS. It reports on two surveys conducted in March 2002 and October 2002-February 2003 respectively and thus offers a longitudinal perspective. The questionnaires were administered both on paper and electronically and the results compared but no differences in data collected could be detected. The results showed a growth in usage in the relatively short period between the two surveys and subject area studied proved to be the main determinant of EIS usage, followed by integration into the program.