This study investigated the awareness and purpose of electronic information resources among postgraduate students of library and information science in Borno State. The descriptive survey research design was adopted for this study. Two objectives and two research questions were formulated to guide the study. The population of this study comprised 3073 postgraduate students in university of Maiduguri for 2019/2020 session. The purposive sampling technique was used to select all the 259 postgraduate students offering library and information science in University of Maiduguri. Data for this study was collected using of structured questionnaire developed by the researcher. The study used mean and standard deviation as statistical measures for data analysis. The finding revealed that PG students are aware of electronic information resources such as e-journals, e-books, e-mails, e-databases, e-magazines, e-serials, e-dissertation and theses, WWW, e-mails, CD-ROMs, online public access dialogue, reference databases, e-images and e-audio visual resources. The result also revealed that the purpose to which they use electronic information resources in federal universities in North East, Nigeria. The purposes included using library’s electronic information resources to source materials for research/writing project; using library’s electronic information resources to do class assignments; using electronic information resources to augment class works; using the electronic catalogue (OPAC) for sourcing information in the library; using the internet in the library to generally source information in the library. Based on the findings of this study, it was recommended among others that academic staff should be included in the selection process of e-databases so that they would confirm the relevancy of the databases and may appreciate the databases and therefore would recommend students to use the e-databases