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The relevance of a library in the 21st century: Students’ perception
(Academic Journals, 2013-07) Omeluzor, Saturday U.; Bamidele, Itunu A.; Ukangwa, Chinemerem C.; Amadi, Hannah U.
There have been several arguments on the relevance of the library in the 21st century. In fact, some scholars have argued that the Internet has taken over the library information services. This paper therefore highlights general comments on the relevance of a library in the 21st Century from secondary literature and the perceptions of 60 Accounting 200 level students of Bachelor of Science/Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (B.Sc./ICAN) conversion programme at Babcock University who offered Use of Library and Study Skills during the 2012/2013 academic session. To ascertain their views, a question titled “Library is the haven for learning, teaching and research, discuss” was posted on the blog http://omesknowledgeboard.blogspot.com/. All the 60 students responded, given a total response of 100%. From their comments, it can be deduced that the relevance of a library to the society cannot diminish even in the years to come; hence all the respondents indicated that library has impacted the lives of students, researchers, businessmen and women, and will continue to impact future generations. Furthermore, their responses showed that library was very relevant in promoting and supporting learning, research, habit formation, rehabilitation of prison inmates, information resource sharing, knowledge and heritage preservation, collaborative research, publishing and free access to information.
Rural Women and their Information Seeking Behavior
(Library Philosophy and Practice, paper, 2016) Ijiekhuamhen Osaze Patrick; Omosekejimi Ademola Ferdinand
This study is focused at exploring the information seeking behaviour of the women in rural areas. The study adopted a survey design. Four objectives were laid down for the study and a structured interview and questionnaire was used to bring out information from respondents. The findings showed that among the 294 respondents, 41% of them are 31-40 years of age, 24% of the respondents are below 30 years of age, 18% are between the ages of 41-50 years of age among
others. The study also revealed majority of the women have secondary school education with 44% of them admitting that they are secondary school certificate holder. The study shows that the information needs of rural women in the top rank are occupational related with 85% of respondents, child care and family relationship with 64% of respondents. The study clearly indicates that the major source of information for the respondents is friends and family members
with 95% of the respondents attesting to that, another 75% of the respondents indicated age groups as their source of information. The study revealed that the major use of information by respondents was to improve their Occupation with 91% of respondents, to care for children and run the family with 78% of respondents. It is clear from the study that no library resources is the major barrier to the access of information by respondents with 98%, illiteracy with 76% of
respondents, language barriers with 66% respondents, among others. Recommendations were put forward to enhance access to information by women in the rural areas.
Usability Evaluation of University Library Websites in South-South Usability Evaluation of University Library Websites in South-South Nigeria
(Library Philosophy and Practice, 2020) Akpojotor, Lucky Oji; Anyaoku, Ebele N.
Evaluation of website usability is very essential to ensure good use and access to the content of the website. The study assessed the usability of library websites in Universities in South-South Nigeria. Eleven University library websites were identified and examined for the study. The study used an analytical survey method to collect data. A usability checklist was adopted for the study. The checklist has five usability attributes usefulness, Efficiency, Effectiveness, Learnability, and Accessibility. Result shows that six of the eleven University Library websites examined have a total usability score of 50% and above. One library website obtained the highest usability score at 89.5% and the lowest score was 26.3%. Summary of usability attributes of the University Library Websites shows that only five of the eleven websites scored above 50% in terms of site usefulness. For website efficiency, six out of the eleven websites scored 50% and above. For effectiveness only one library website scored 100%; others scored below 50%. All the library websites scored above 50% for learnability except one which scored 33.3%. All library websites scored 50% and above for accessibility. The study concludes that regular evaluation of a library website is core to maintaining the library‘s ability to fulfill support users in the pursuit of their academic and professional goals and also to compete successfully with other standard academic websites.
Use of Open Access Publications and Lecturers Research Productivity in Polytechnics in South-South Nigeria
(JOURNAL OF INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, 2024) Akpojotor, Lucky Oji; Okeraghogho Ekuerhare
The rationale behind this study is to find out the availability of materials that are in open access, and to see if the available open access publications enough to enhance lecturers’ productivity in polytechnics in South-South, Nigeria. In accomplishing this, three research questions and one hypothesis guided the
study. A sample of 291 lecturers was propositionally drawn from the population of 1,140 lecturers in South-South, Nigeria. Frequency counts was used to analyze the respondents’ bio data and research questions 1-4, while the inferential statistics that was used for the testing of research hypothesis is
Pearson Product moment correlation coefficient. From the data collected lecturers make very high use of electronic journals, library print journals, PDFs, and Wiki articles. The result of the analyzed data shows that open access resources improves lecturers’ productivity in lecturing, online publishing, offline publishing, publishing locally, publishing internationally, and publishing scholarly research papers (peer reviewed). Also, it shows that the lecturers have a very high skill in Internet surfing, word processing packages, use of electronic databases, Windows interface, search engines use, browsers use, downloading, uploading, and PDF resources. However, they lacked skill in use of Spreadsheet packages thus posing a challenge to their data analysis skills. Among other, it shows that the benefits accruing from lecturers’ productivity includes: impartation of knowledge on students, impartation of knowledge on researchers, contribution to existing knowledge, updating knowledge, increasing the academic standard of institutions, creation of new knowledge, provision of research materials, provision of research papers in open access databases, improvement of students’ reading culture, and filling gaps in knowledge. Moreover, study reveals that network problems, poor electricity supply constitute technological hindrances to lecturers’ access to open access resources. Furthermore, findings revealed that there is no significant relationship between the use of Open Access (OA) publications and lecturers’ productivity in polytechnics in South South, Nigeria. The findings further conclude that there is a significant relationship between lecturers’ levels of ICTs skills for use of open access (OA) and their productivity in polytechnics in South-South, Nigeria.
Potentials of artificial intelligence (AI) in collection development in university libraries
(Communicate: Journal of Library and Information Science, 2024-12) Saturday U. Omeluzor; Njideka Nwawih Charlotte Ojukwu
The purpose of this study was to identify the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on collection development in the university library in Nigeria. The study used the research survey method and descriptive research analysis. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire. The population of the study comprised a total of 574 librarians in Nigeria who attended the 2024 NLA conference/Annual General Meeting (AGM) that was held at the University of Port Harcourt from 7th to 12th July, 2024. The result showed that AI technology has the potential for effective prediction, automation, analysis, elimination of repetitive tasks, forecasting, budgeting, and reviewing of collection development at the university library. The result further revealed that AI can reduce time and resource wastage in collection development, thereby boosting library collection with ease. The adoption of AI would enhance the collection development unit while improving the overall services of the university library. The research recommended the adoption of AI for the collection development unit to enhance its services.