Abstract
This paper discussed information communication technology (ICT) literacy as the relative measure of library staff’s capacity to make appropriate use of ICTs for information acquisition, organization, retrieval and dissemination. It also examined the impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) literacy on the duties of library staff in selected federal university libraries in Nigeria. The research employs a purposive sampling technique to select six federal universities one each from the six geo-political zones in Nigeria. Questionnaire was used for data collection which yielded a 79.7% response rate. A major finding of the study revealed that over 60% of the respondents were competent in sending emails, use of search engines, the use of Microsoft application software such as Ms Word and Ms Power Point. The study concluded that the level of ICT literacy competence among the library staff in the Nigerian federal university libraries studied is on the averageKeywords: ICT literacy, information literacy, university libraries, computer literacy
Highlights
This paper discussed information communication technology (ICT) literacy as the relative measure of library staff’s capacity to make appropriate use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for information acquisition, organization, retrieval and dissemination
Harris and Millet (2006) came to the conclusion that information fluency is the fusion of literacies and that it is the optimal outcome when critical thinking skills are combined with information, computer and information communication technology literacy
To enhance job performance and keep abreast with trends in the library profession, the library staff in Nigerian universities are required to know the basic computer operations such as turning the computer on, opening a folder, copying a file from one disk to another, scanning etc. In addition to these basic operations, library staff should be familiar with the use of application software such as creating a new word processor document, modifying an existing word processor document, print out a document, operating in a networked environment such as local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN)
Summary
This paper discussed information communication technology (ICT) literacy as the relative measure of library staff’s capacity to make appropriate use of ICTs for information acquisition, organization, retrieval and dissemination It examined the impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) literacy on the duties of library staff in selected federal university libraries in Nigeria. Library staff especially in this digital era is expected to exhibit some degree of expertise in various aspects of library and information work Skills such as using the Internet for research, sending e-mails, find specific information, taking part in an online discussion or chatting (videoconferencing), and sending /attaching file to an e-mail, using a www search engine such as yahoo, google, MSN etc, using keywords or phrases to search for information on the www etc. It is against this backdrop, that this study is embarked upon to assess the ICT literacy competence of library staff in Nigerian Federal Universities
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