Media Literacy Skills and Use of Electronic Resources by Library and Information Science Students’ in Digital Environment, University of Uyo, Nigeria (Published)
This study investigated the influence of media literacy skills and use of electronic resources by Library and Information Students in digital environment, University of Uyo. Three research questions and three research hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The study involved 213 LIS undergraduates who were registered library users in 2021/2022 academic session. Census sampling technique were used for the study; the total population was used as sample size. A structured questionnaire tagged: media literacy skills and use of electronic resources by LIS in digital environment was used for data collection. The instrument was vetted by two experts in department of educational foundation, University of Uyo. The instrument was administered on the respondents by the researchers with help of research assistants in the three campus libraries in the University of Uyo. The data collected were analyzed using mean statistics and t-test to test the hypotheses. The result of the data analyzed revealed that a significant influence exists between each of the media literacy skills and use of electronic resources by LIS students in the University of Uyo. The study recommends among others that the University Library and Department of library and Information Science should collaborate in designing programme for teaching of media literacy skills in the University to equipped students with adequate basic media literacy skills.
Keywords: Students, Use, digital environment, electronic resources, media literacy
Influence of the Implementation of Nigerian University Commission Library Parameters on Accreditation Readiness for Academic Programmes in Federal Universities of South-East, Nigeria (Published)
The study investigated the influence of the implementation of Nigerian University Commission library parameters on accreditation readiness for academic programmes in Federal Universities of South-East, Nigeria. The study adopted the descriptive survey design. The population of the study comprised 161 academic librarians in the five federal universities located in the South-East zone of Nigeria. These are; University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Michael Okpara University, Umudike, Federal University of Technology, Owerri and Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo. The census sampling technique was adopted for the study since the total number of academic librarians in the five universities was within a manageable size. The sampling method was considered appropriate because it allows statistical enumeration and participation of all members of the population in the study. Data was collected using questionnaire and analysed using regression analysis. Findings show that libraries are under staffed in most universities in the South East of Nigeria and the libraries had information resources to a great extent, but still needed to widen their services given the growing student population and new courses offered. The study therefore concluded that it is imperative for university administrators through the governing councils to employ more library staff in all cadres (professionals and para-professionals) as well as support staff. Also, the academic library environment should be made more conducive to attract clienteles to the library at all times and maintenance of furniture and equipment at libraries should be standardized, while upgrade and expansion services should also be done systematically.
Keywords: Federal Universities, Librarians, Libraries, Nigerian University Commission (NUC), accreditation readiness, electronic resources, library environment, library staffing