Abstract
Information landscape has continued to expand beyond traditional text-based resources to encompass a plethora of formats including digital, video, and social media as human civilization evolves. This evolution has paved the way for varieties of information resources to be made available for use in all fields of knowledge. Through information acquired, humanism provides general knowledge of the best accomplishments of human beings throughout history. However, there are hardly studies that explored availability, relevance and use of information resources by humanities’ lecturers, academics and scholars in different branches of knowledge in Nigeria. Hence, this paper examined availability, relevance and use of information resources in humanities by lecturers in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State. This study adopted descriptive survey research design of the case study type. The population of the study comprised of Eight Humanities Departments which are Dramatic Arts, (10), English (35), African Languages (13), Foreign Languages (15), History (16), Philosophy (16), Music (9) and Religious Studies (12) giving a study population of 126. Total enumeration sampling technique was adopted for the study. Questionnaire was administered to the respondents, with 66(52%) response rate. Descriptive statistics, frequency counts and simple percentages, pie and bar charts was used for the data analysis. Result showed that reference materials, theses and dissertation, grey literature, e-resources and relevant websites are some information sources used by the academics of Humanities in OAU. It was also revealed that these resources are harvested through the library and the Internet. However, unstable power supply and inadequate funding of the library among others were factors militating against their use. Alternative power supply, increased funds to the library and review of collection development policies of academic libraries were recommended.