SOURCE:

Faculty: Education
Department: Library And Information Science

CONTRIBUTORS:

Jiagbogu, O.C;
Anunobi, C.V;

ABSTRACT:

The study examined the predictors of technology-enabled knowledge sharing among professional and paraprofessional librariansin South-East, Nigeria. Seven research questions and their corresponding hypotheses were raised for the study. The independent variables of self-efficacy, altruism, trust, reciprocity, availability of technology, perceived ease of use of technology and perceived usefulness of technology were correlated to the dependent variable of technology-enabled knowledge sharing. This is a correlation survey research. All the238 PPLs in the five federal institutions of South-East Nigeria were used for the study. Validated structured questionnaire on predictors of technology-enabled knowledge sharing with co-efficient of 0.87, 0.83, 0.83, 0.81, 0.84, 0.75, 0.84, and 0.90 for self-efficacy, altruism, trust, reciprocity, availability of technology, perceived ease of use of technology, perceived usefulness of technology and technology-enabled knowledge sharing respectively were used to collect data for the study.Simple and multiple regression analysis were used in answering the research questions while p-value was used to determine the significance of the prediction. The findings of the study suggested that there is a positive relationship between each of the seven variables and technology-enabled knowledge sharing among PPLs in federal universities of South East, Nigeria. In addition, all the seven variables were significant predictors of technology-enabled knowledge sharing among PPLs in federal universities of South-East Nigeria. The implication was that an increase in each of the predictors will increase PPLs’ engagement in technology-enabled knowledge sharing. The study recommended amongst others that PPLs in federal universities of South-East, Nigeria should be motivated to engage in personal enhancement trainings on modern technologies of their own volition and expense; and also be encouraged to take advantage of it where such trainings are made available through their employers, professional association or regulatory body.