SOURCE:

Faculty: Education
Department: Library And Information Science

CONTRIBUTORS:

Ikenwe, I.J;
Anaehobi, E.S;

ABSTRACT:

This study investigated information literacy skills of lecturers as correlate of their utilization of digital library resources in federal universities in South-South Nigeria. Five research questions guided the study and five hypotheses tested at 0.05 Apha level. The study adopted correlational research design. The population of the study comprised six thousand, six hundred and fifty three (6,653) lecturers with a sample size of six hundred and sixty five (665) selected through proportionate stratified random sampling technique, representing 10% of the lecturers from each faculty in the various institutions. The instruments for data collection were cognitive test (Information Literacy Skill Test) and questionnaire used for ascertaining lecturers information literacy skills and utilization of digital library resources respectively. The instruments were self-constructed by the researcher and validated by three lecturers, one in Department of Educational Foundations and two in the Department of Library and Information Science, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. Kuder- Richadson was used to establish the reliability coefficient for the five clusters of information literacy skills yielding the score 0.77, 0.78, 0.75, 0.64, 0.81 and Cronbach Alpha for questionnaire (utilization of digital library resources) yielding 0.81. These were high enough to consider the instrument internally consistent. Data collected were analyzed using pearson product moment correlation coefficient. Results revealed low positive relationship between lecturers skills to identify the extent of information need, skills to access information, skills to apply legal and social aspects of information in the utilization of digital library resources. The findings also revealed the low positive relationship between lecturers skills to evaluate information and use effectively information in their utilization of digital library resources. The hypotheses were rejected, indicating significant positive relationship between lecturers skills to identify extent of information need, skills to access information, skills to evaluate information, skills to use effectively information, and skills to apply legal and social aspects of information in their utilization of digital library resources. Arising from the findings, the study recommends among others that library management should organize regular training and re-training programs for lecturers to increase the various clusters of information literacy skills in their utilization of digital library resources.