Technology-Driven Information: Creation, Access, Storage and Dissemination in Academic Libraries in Nigeria

Abstract

The study adopted a correlational research design to find out the relationship between the roles of Technology-Driven and Information Creation, Access, Storage and Dissemination in Academic Libraries in Nigeria. The study covered six higher institutions with twelve Departments. 252 Lecturers and 3,720 students formed the population of 3,972. A self-design instrument was used; a random sampling technique adopted as well as Krejcie and Morgan method was used to determine the sample size of 354. Mean statistics was used to analyse the research question and Pearson Product Moment Correlation (r) was adopted to test the only hypothesis. It was noted that TechnologyDriven information Plays High Level of Roles in Information Creation, Access, Storage and Dissemination in Academic Libraries in Nigeria. Among other things, the study recommended the recruitment and retention of technical support staff in academic libraries. The availability of technical staff helps to maximize systems accessibility and efficiency.Staff and students also need to be trained on how to use these facilities towards achieving academic excellence. This may be through continuous orientation and the inclusion of such courses like: Use of computer for Information retrieval, Use of Internet/world wide web and IT applications.