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