Colleges of Education Librarians in Nigeria: An Investigation into the Self-Perception of ICT-Related Information Literacy Skills

Baro, Emmanuel E.; Eze, Monica Eberechukwu

doi:10.15760/comminfolit.2015.9.2.186

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“…Tilvawala, Myers and Andrade (2009) in Kenya identified that one barrier to the efficient utilization of ICT in developing countries is the relatively low level of information literacy leading to inability to manipulate and use information effectively. The same sentiments were shared by other researchers in Nigeria (Issa, Blessing & Daura, 2009;Ilogho & Nkiko (2014); Baro & Eze, (2015). Kimani and Onyancha (2015) carried out a study on information literacy skills among incoming first-year undergraduate students in Kenya and found that the majority of students had limited knowledge of strategies used to search for information and were not familiar with the various retrieval tools.…”

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Information Literacy Skills of High School Students in Botswana

Dipetso¹,

Moahi²

2021

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In this study, we assessed information literacy skills of secondary school students in Gaborone, Botswana and established whether and how they are being taught IL skills. The study employed the Big 6 model and was a case study design in which qualitative methods were used. The findings showed that students had low to fair information literacy skills in problem definition, information search strategy, and location of information. Use of information, synthesis, and evaluation were areas of significant challenge. Teachers were aware of information literacy, but were not intentional in their teaching of IL skills. The recommendations are four-fold, a) that education authorities in Botswana should ensure that information literacy is an integral part of students' education by requiring subject teachers as well as teacher-librarians to be intentional in their approach to developing students' information literacy, b) collaboration between teachers and teacher-librarians for more coordinated information literacy initiatives, c) training of both subject teachers and teacher-librarians on pedagogies that integrate the teaching of information literacy.

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Information Literacy Skills of High School Students in Botswana

Dipetso¹,

Moahi²

2021

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“…According to Baro and Eze (2015), issues influencing respondents' learning of ICT skills in the survey included a lack of training, intermittent power supply, poor internet access, and insufficient equipment (computers), and a lack of time.…”

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The Influence of ICT Competencies on Job Performance in Nigerian University Libraries

Ubogu

2022

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The study looked at the impact of ICT skills on librarians’ job performance in university libraries in Nigeria’s southeast. A descriptive research design was used for the study. The population of the study included 235 librarians from university libraries in southeast Nigeria. For the study, the total enumeration sampling technique was used. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from respondents. The findings revealed that librarians in South-East Nigeria are above average in terms of ICT competence in university libraries. They also use ICT to post new problems, carry out current awareness tasks, and perform user education tasks. It was also stated that ICT has improved the services provided by librarians while decreasing creative activities in university libraries. Poor funding, insufficient ICT training, insufficient professional manpower to conduct in-house ICT training, LIS curriculum not properly structured in line with current ICT realities, insufficient ICT implementation and planning, and other issues have hampered librarians’ acquisition of ICT skills in university libraries. The study recommended among others that adequate funding be allocated for the training and retraining of librarians in the use of ICT, that training on network-based services, database management/searching, QR Code services, and web design be organized for librarians to boost their competencies, and that the use of ICT for task execution be adequately incorporated into the curriculum of library and information science to expose young professionals to the prospects of the use of ICT.

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