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Research Title: Sources of Information: A Comparative Study of use of the Books on the Library and the Internet on Senior High School Students of Mapúa Institute of Technology

Introduction

Information is the foundation of every individual,society or group. It is a component of any academic environment for being vital and essential. The effectiveness of any academic system is base from the information. The more information that the academic environment have, the more effective they are. Information is important for every individual especially to the students and to the teachers or professors in any various academic endeavors. Library are being used by the students and the teachers or professors as their source of information. Alemna (2000)

Public library are expected to provide users to access information in an effective and timely manner for that is their key role in society. Olowu (2004) states that the fundamental aim of libraries are to provide accurate, timely, pertinent, and reliable information for their users. The most widely used source of information available to literate societies is the library based on what Thanuskodi (2009) said. The librarians role is to be aware of the kind of information being sought by the users and how the information can be obtained. The library has the duty to maintain and provide efficient services to the users for the rapidly escalating cost of purchasing and archiving print journals and electronic

Everyone can easily access to the internet, and get many information as long as they want. Internet has quickly become viable technology used by many countries for it can be a medium of communication, and it can provides many information that enables the students, teachers or professors, researchers, and information seekers to access information to enhance their work. Internet technologies have been applied to education, stimulated electronic commerce, and have helped to develop communication via intranets. Some universities have decided to used e-books for the students because e-book or electronic books are just the electronic version of a traditional textbooks. Vassilou (2008) defines e-book into two parts; the first part summaries the essential and reasonably stable nature of e-books, and the second part is the in-use of features. The features of e-books are the reference materials, multimedia objects, highlights, hypertext links, bookmarks, search and cross reference functions, interactive dictionaries and note