Assessment of High-Tech Skills Competency among Librarians in Some Selected Universities in South-South, Nigeria
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https://doi.org/10.64348/zije.2026486Abstract
This paper examines high-tech skills competency of librarians in selected university in South-South, Nigeria. The population of the study was 44 professional librarians in Selected universities, in South-South, Nigeria, during the 2005/2006 academic session. The manageable size of the population warrants the adoption of total enumeration technique, thus, questionnaire was used as a tool for data collection and distributed to respondents physically at their different libraries by the two research assistants, where at the end, a total of 44 questionnaires were recovered and made usable for analysis (100% response rate). The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, the result indicate that respondents were not fully use of the following high-tech skills, network management, computer security knowledge, web design, graphic design, creative online instructional materials/products, instant messages and instant software. The findings revealed that in-house training, NLA training, LRCN training and self-sponsorship were the modality to acquired IT training. The challenges identified include technological inefficiency/ AI integration, high cost of digitisation equipment/software, poor ICT infrastructure, insufficient institutional support, inadequate funding/limited training and skill development, ethical and security issues. Based on the findings the study recommended that management should provide adequate training to librarians especially on the aspect of network management, computer security knowledge, blogging, graphic design, web design, instant messages and creative online instructional materials/ products, most of the high tech skills claimed not been used among the librarians in the university understudy, among others.
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