International Journal of Academic Library and Information Science
 

 International Journal of Academic Library and Information Science Vol. 2(5), pp. 51–57, June, ISSN: 2360-7858 ©2014 Academic Research Journals

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ICT competencies in the 21st century library profession: a departure from the past

¹VICTORIA O. ITSEKOR AND ²UGWUNNA, I.S.

¹COVENANT UNIVERSITY, OTA. E-mail: victoria.itsekor@convenantuniversity.edu.ng  

²NRCRI, UMUDIKE ABIA STATE, NIGERIA. E-mail: Ikechukwu.ugwunna@nrcri.org . 08064828755

Accepted 3 June 2014

This paper examined the different challenges posed by ICT competencies/literacy to librarians in the 21st century. It established that librarians possess digital skills and competencies; that ICT facilities are in libraries; librarians access the internet and provide digital information resources services; it also revealed that different libraries are on the path to digitization; librarians agreed that there are challenges and that they are working to mitigate them. The study concluded by encouraging those librarians not yet on the ICT competence track to join the train. Descriptive survey method was used with a randomly selected sample of one hundred (100) librarians from a target population of over five hundred (500) librarians. Ninety-two percent of the librarians say that ICT facilities are available in their working environment, however 81 or 93% of the librarians complained of problems of ICT including poor bandwidth, lack of fund for expansion of network by service providers and epileptic power supply among other challenges.

Keywords: ICT Competencies Digital Literacy, digitization


 

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