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    Challenges Confronting Postgraduate Library and Information Science Student in the use of Electronic Resources in Southern Nigeria
    (Libraries at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2016-02-01) Akporhonor, Blessings A.; Akpojotor, Lucky O.
    The study aims at identifying the challenging confronting postgraduate library and information science student in the use of electronic resources in Southern-Nigeria. The descriptive survey design was adopted for this study. The census sampling technique was adopted for this study. Thus, the entire population of three hundred and seventy (375) postgraduate students of library and information science student in Southern Nigeria was used as the respondents for this study. The questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection. The simple percentage statistical tool was used to answer the research question. The finding revealed that poor internet connectivity epileptic power supply, information overload, high cost of access, download delay and difficulty in accessing some websites are some of the problems militating against the use of electronic information resources by postgraduate students of library and information science student on Southern Nigeria. Based on the findings, the study recommended that power supply should be improved upon, internet providers should improve their network services, cost of accessing electronic information resources should be subsidize to a minimum so as to make them affordable.
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    Computer Self-Efficacy, Computer Anxiety and Information Retrieval Skills as Correlate of Electronic Library Use among LIS Undergraduates in Southern Nigeria Universities
    (Libraries at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2024-01-16) Akpojotor, Lucky O.
    The study examined computer self-efficacy, computer anxiety and information retrieval skills as correlate of electronic library use among library and information science undergraduates in universities in Southern Nigeria. One research question guided the study while one hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance. The correlational research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study was 10,345 library and information science (LIS) undergraduates from ten federal, seventeen state and eight private universities in Southern Nigeria. The study explores purposive and quota sampling technique to determine the sample size which arrived at 1, 006 used for the study. Four instruments: Undergraduates’ Computer Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (UCSQ), Undergraduates’ Computer Anxiety Questionnaire (UCAQ), Undergraduate Information Retrieval Skill Questionnaire (UIRSQ), and Undergraduates’ Electronic Library Use Questionnaire (UELUQ) were used for data collection. In other to establish the reliability of the instruments, Cronbach alpha was used to analyze data collected from twenty (20) LIS undergraduate students in one federal university (Federal University of Technology, Mina) in North-central geopolitical zone of Nigeria. The alpha coefficients of UCSQ is .88, UCAQ .90, UIRSQ .94 and UELUQ .89 respectively. The Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMC) was deplored to answer the research question while multiple regression was used to test the hypothesis. Findings revealed that computer self-efficacy, computer anxiety and information retrieval skills jointly had a significant relationship with LIS undergraduates’ electronic library use. The study recommends amongst others that all stakeholders in university education in Nigeria namely; Nigeria University Commission (NUC), Librarian Registration Council of Nigeria (LRCN) and Nigeria Library Association (NLA) should collaborate to redesign or tailor LIS curriculum to reflect information and communication technological courses with innovations prevalent in this 21st century like what is obtainable in developed world. Also, the new LIS curriculum advocated should ensure that the teaching of computer skills to LIS undergraduate in universities is promoted. This is to enable the moderate level of usage of electronic library information resources by LIS undergraduate changed to high and is sustained for adequate academic prowess.
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    Incidents of Cyberbullying Among Library and Information Science (LIS) Students at Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria.
    (IGI Global, 2016) Adomi, Esharenana E.; Eriki, Joy A.; Tiemo, Pereware A.; Akpojotor, Lucky O.
    The purpose of this study is to explore incidents of cyberbullying among library and information science (LIS) students at Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria. Descriptive survey research design was adopted in this study. This design was adopted because it would permit the researchers to investigate the current status of the incidents of cyberbullying among library and information science students at Delta State University, Abraka and did not involve manipulation of variables. The population and sample of this study consisted of year three undergraduate library and information science student of Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria. This is made of 80 students in 2013/2014 academic session. The questionnaire was used as instrument of data collection. Frequency counts and percentage were used for data analysis. The study revealed that 80% of the students have knowledge of cyberbullying; 80% of them have been cyberbullied; the types of cyberbullying experienced include harassment, flaming, masquerade, denigration, exclusion, outing and trickery, and cyberstalking in that order; 40.6% of the students were cyberbullied via Facebook, 37.5% via cell phone, 31.3% chat room, 21.9% via instant messaging, 14.1% e-mail; 35.9% of them perceived perpetrators of the cyberbullying to be friends, 25 anonymous/don’t know, 23.4% ex-lover, 15.6% course mate; the effects of cyberbullying on the students are anger (40.6%), low self-esteem (25%), depression (21.9%), low academic performance (20.3%), school phobia (15.6%). This study provided primary data on students and cyberbullying in a developing country. The findings would enable educational authorities to know the status of cyberbullying among university students, which would help them to educate the students on the issues involved and plan intervention actions that will assist the students to deal with experience of cyberbullying.
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    Influence of Job Rotation on Employee Productivity in Federal University Libraries in Southern Nigeria.
    (Information Technology Series, 2016) Akpojotor, Lucky O.; Oyovwe-Tinuoye, Ogheneghatowho G.
    This study focused on the influence of job rotation on employee productivity in federal university libraries in Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design using 653 academic librarians and library officers in Southern Nigeria. Total enumeration method was used because the entire population (342 Librarians and 311 library officers which gave a total of 653 staff in the eighteen (18) federal university libraries in Southern Nigeria) was considered appropriate for this study. The instrument used for data collection was questionnaire, and 621 responded to the questionnaire which gave a total return of 95% used for the research. The study revealed that job rotation enhances employee productivity in library operation and also enhances increase in productivity in a particular task. The study therefore recommends that University librarians and management of institution should ensure that job rotation is encouraged in library operation by allocating of special fund to the exercise. In addition, rotation of library staff should be done on a yearly basis before such a staff is deployed to other sections of the library.
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    Relationship between computer anxiety and electronic library use among LIS undergraduates in universities in Southern Nigeria.
    (Credence Publishing, 2023) Akpojotor, Lucky O.
    The study investigated the relationship between computer anxiety and electronic library use among library and information science undergraduates in universities in Southern Nigeria. One research question guided the study while one research hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance. The correlational research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study was 10,345 library and information science (LIS) undergraduates from ten federal, seventeen state and eight private universities in Southern Nigeria. The study adopts purposive and quota sampling technique to determine the sample size of 1, 017 used for the study. Two instruments: “Undergraduates‟ Computer Anxiety Questionnaire (UCAQ)” and “Undergraduates‟ Electronic Library Use Questionnaire (UELUQ)” were used for data collection. The overall reliability indexes for the two instruments were .90 and .89 respectively using Cronbach‟s alpha. Pearson‟s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMC) and simple linear regression was used to analyze the data. The findings indicated that there was a very low positive relationship between LIS undergraduates‟ computer anxiety and their electronic library use. The study further exemplified that there was a significant relationship f (df; 1,981) = 34.44, p<0.05 between computer anxiety and electronic library use among LIS undergraduates. However, it was recommended that LIS undergraduates should engage themselves in computer skills training regularly in order to have the needed proficiency in the different aspects of computer as this will ensure a continued and more effective utilization of electronic library resources. Also, university library management should have a well – structured electronic library use training and retraining for LIS undergraduates regularly through seminars, workshops, conferences to acquire and improve on the needed skills towards electronic library information resources usage.
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    Usability Evaluation of University Library Websites in South-South Nigeria
    (Libraries at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2020) Akpojotor, Lucky O.; 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.