Effect of Information Literacy Skills on Use Of Electronic Library Resources By Lecturers In Universities In North Central Nigeria

Abstract

This study examined the effect of information literacy skills on use of electronic library resources by lecturers in universities in North Central Nigeria. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for this study, cluster sampling technique was used to select nine (9) out of 23 universities in the North Central Zone of Nigeria, each cluster containing three teams each represented federal, state and private owned universities. The population of the study was 6267 lecturers in the universities in North central Nigeria. Neyman's allocation formula was employed selecting the sample size for each selected university giving a total of 404 respondents. Questionnaire was administered as instrument for data collection. Simple percentage statistical tool was used to answer the research questions while the hypothesis was tested using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) at 0.05 significance level. The study showed that the respondents possessed high levels of information literacy skills electronic resources such as e-journals, e-books, and internet resources were available in this institutions and highly utilized. Hypothesis tested revealed that there exists strong positive correlation between information literacy skills and utilization of electronic resources it was also revealed descriptively that information literacy skills had great positive effect on the utilization of electronic resources thus the study recommends continual improvement on information literacy skill of lecturers, as well as seminar, workshop should be organized by the schools for lecturers so as to improve information literacy skills