Emerging Roles: Academic Libraries Crossing the Digital Divide

Angell, Kenneth

doi:10.18785/slis.0601.05

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“…The Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has revolutionized the mode and pattern of information capturing and processing and dissemination. Angell (2017) avers that there is a difference between people who can easily accept and profit from advancements in information and communication technology in the 21st century and those who cannot. Meanwhile, despite the enormous benefit derived from the use of Internet for information dissemination and service delivery by the librarians, there are invariably some groups of people who are still lagging behind, when it comes to accessing new technology.…”

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“…Similarly, an informed person is likely to commit fewer mistakes when compared to an uninformed individual. Hence, the library is the last resort and hope where the digital divide can be bridged (Aqili and Moghaddam, 2007;Angell, 2017;Idiegbeyan-Ose., Esse,, Fagbohun, Ilo, Osinulu, Adebayo, Olawoyin and Nwokeoma, 2018). In the light of the above, there is a need to look at what role the librarians and libraries can play in the era of digital divide.…”

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Librarianship in The Era of Digital Divide: Review of Literature

Ogunmodede¹,

Oyetola²,

Adio³

et al. 2023

IJLISS

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Librarianship is an evolving discipline having its feet in partially every profession. It is the foundation upon which all other professions in the world over built their structure of existence. It is no longer news that the application of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) has revolutionized the practice of librarianship. This paper therefore, examined the place of librarians in the digital divide. Furthermore, the assumption that those who have knowledge of ICTs are adequately equipped with functional information than those who do not was also examined. Who librarians are and their responsibilities, effects of digital divide on librarianship practice, factors contributory to the digital divide and the challenges confronting the practice in the digital divide were highlighted. The paper concluded that training and re-training of librarians in the form of capacity building is inevitable if librarians will occupy their space in the digital era.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%