Information Communications Technology (ICT) as a factor enhancing Information Dissemination on Climate Change in Public Libraries in North – Central Nigeria

Abstract

The study seeks to establish the indispensable role of ICT as a correlate to effective Information Dissemination on Climate Change in Public Libraries in North – Central Nigeria. The study was anchored on five objectives which are (1) To find out if they know about climate change; (2) to find out if they know about the associated problems of climate change; (3) to find out the ICT tools they can use in public libraries to disseminate information on climate change; (4) to find out how they can use the tools to disseminate information on climate change to their users; (5) to find out how disseminated information to their users with ICT tools can help in mitigating climate change problems. Total enumeration or census population technique was adopted, to use the total population of staff which were 242 according to retrieved copies of questionnaires. A hypothesis was tested at 0.5 level of significance and data was analysed using frequency tables and percentages and mean rankings. The hypothesis was analysed using Pearson product moment correlation coefficient to determine the relationship of the independent variable to the dependent variable. The findings from the objectives were that the ICTs were the only anchors on which Information on climate change, its problems and mitigations could be effectively disseminated. Based on all the findings of the study, it was concluded that the public libraries in North-Central Nigeria really need ICT tools to be able to disseminate climate change information to users.