Abstract
This study investigates the level of information literacy competency among students of College of Nursing and Midwifery School Kafanchan, Kaduna State, Nigeria. The study focuses on three basic skills namely: Identification, accession and evaluating skills. A survey research method was employed for this study. The study was based on the data collected through questionnaire tagged information literacy questionnaire (ILSQ). The reliability of the instrument was determined through Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient statistic and the obtained value was established at r=0.73. Frequency count and percentage were used to analyze the data. The result obtained revealed that most students lacked ability in the identification, accession and evaluation of information resources. The study recommends that information literacy programme be incorporated and should be a two credit units course into the school curriculum of the school. Key words: Information, information literacy, competency, evaluation skill, accession skill identification skill.
Highlights
In recent times, information is recognized as a crucial factor in all aspects of human endeavor; it is a major commodity (Hadimani, and Rajgoli, 2010)
From the result of the findings, it was revealed that most students lacked basic skills of information literacy
It is concluded that the information resources of the library are not fully utilized by the students
Summary
Information is recognized as a crucial factor in all aspects of human endeavor; it is a major commodity (Hadimani, and Rajgoli, 2010). Because of the difficulties associated to accessing the needed information, Hazrati et al (2014) contended that students and researchers must be equipped with basic information skills such as: ability to determine nature and extent of information, ability to evaluate information needs, ability to access needed information and its source, ability to use information effectively and ability to understand the legality linked to the information. It is in this light that this study is aimed at investigating the information literacy competence of the students of College of Nursing and Midwifery, Kafanchan, Kaduna State
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