LEVEL OF AWARENESS AND APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT BY ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS IN UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES IN SOUTH-EAST NIGERIA

SOURCE:

Faculty: Education
Department: Library And Information Science

CONTRIBUTORS:

Anike, A. N.
Echedom, A.U.

ABSTRACT:

Application of Knowledge management is crucial to effective information service delivery in university libraries. But its implementation in Nigeria is still at the initial stage while the level of awareness and application in university libraries in South-East is yet to be determined. This necessitated this study on the level of awareness and application of Knowledge management by academic librarians in university libraries in South-East Nigeria. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The population comprised 175 academic librarians from ten public universities. Six research questions and four hypotheses guided the study. The instrument used for data collection was questionnaire. Mean was used to answer the research questions while t-test was used for testing of the hypotheses. Findings of the study revealed among others that the level of awareness of personal knowledge management was moderate while that of organizational knowledge management was high. The level of application of personal knowledge management was high while that of organizational knowledge management was low. Based on the findings, it was concluded that the collective knowledge of the organization is uncoordinated and knowledge sharing has not been institutionalized in the university libraries studied thereby impeding the achievement of organizational goals. Consequently, It was recommended among others that university libraries should formulate a knowledge management strategy based on actual needs of the university and that trainers of academic librarians should adequately expose and equip them with knowledge and competencies to confidently and effectively apply knowledge management for improved service delivery.

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