) Education and Information roles of knowledge Information Management Professionals in Public Libraries in sentising people on the Impact of Climate Change in North-Central Nigeria

Abstract

Paper seeks to use the education and information roles of knowledge information management professionals in public libraries to sensitise people on the phenomenal issue of climate change. The study was anchored on five objectives (1) to create awareness for people using their roles of education to educate users and other people about the problems associated with climate change. ; (2) to make them know that they can use their service roles of education to educate people on other sources of energy they can use domestically instead of burning fossil fuels;3 to use their service roles of information to disseminate information on how necessary afforestation is in mitigating climate change problems; (4) to use their roles as cultural gate keepers of information to disseminate information on human activities that reduce greenhouse gas emission; (5) to use their roles of information dissemination to give people information that would enable them create other sources of energy . Census research design of 251 staff would be used, hypotheses was tested at 0.5 level of significance and data was presented using frequency tables and percentages. The hypotheses was analysed using Pearson product moment correlation coefficient to determine the relationship of the independent variables to the dependent variables and was found to have a strong positive relation. The findings from the objectives are that the knowledge Information Management Professionals can use their roles of Education and Information to educate, inform users and other people about climate change, dangerous impacts and measures for mitigation.