Browsing by Author "Omosekejimi, Ademola F."

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    Assess users’ satisfaction on Academic library performance: A study.
    (Progressive Academic Publishing, UK, 2015) Ijiekhuamhen, Osaze P.; Aghojare, Blessing; Omosekejimi, Ademola F.
    This study quantifies user’s satisfaction on academic library performance by determine the clients satisfaction with library services, infrastructure/place/space and collection/information provided by an academic library in Federal University of Petroleum Resources, (FUPRE) Library. The study sample population comprised 381 students of the university. The instrument used for data collection in this study was questionnaire. Research questions were answered using frequency, bar charts, tables and percentages for easy interpretation. The major findings of the study revealed that the respondents were highly satisfied with the library services, infrastructure/place/space, and collection/information of the library as a whole. Also, the study reveals that, many of the respondents visit the library for more than one reason whereas the largest proportion of the respondents goes to library due to the availability of internet connectivity in the library. The respondents were suggests that, library should stay open longer, Increase internet bandwidth, library should publish a guide on information searching skills, library should provide the latest collection, some were of opinion that library should publish index and bibliographies, provision of guidance on consultation and research method, library should organize workshop on how to find information, staff should be more friendly and knowledgeable among other.
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    Covid 19 Information Seeking Behaviour of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPS) in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria.
    (Lincoln, 2021) Omosekejimi, Ademola F.; Dada, Grace A.; Ebhonu, Sylvester I.
    This study focused on exploring COVID 19 information seeking behavior of IDPs Nigerian using IDPs in the federal capital territory, Abuja, Nigeria as a case study. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. Four objectives were laid down for the study and a structured questionnaire was used to elicit information from the respondents. The findings revealed that the COVID 19 information needs of IDPs are information on symptoms of COVID 19, how it spreads, preventive measures against COVID 19, the causes of COVID 19 and how to get medical attention should anyone be confirmed infected at the IPD camp among others. The study also found that the sources of COVID 19 information available to IDPs include friends and family at the camp; social media such as Facebook and WhatsApp; radio; Internet and health workers i.e. doctors and nurses. The study revealed that the major use COVID 19 information were to know the symptoms of the virus; know to prevent themselves from being infected with the virus; know how to reach out to health workers in case of suspected COVID 19 patients and knowing the drugs combination for self treatment in case of infection. Lack of frequent visitation to the camps by health official, lack of access to television at the camp, distorted information from friends and family, too many information on COVID 19, among others were revealed as the barriers to COVID 19 information seeking and access among the IDPs. The study recommends that efforts should be made by the Federal government of Nigeria to pay special attention to the information needs of the IDPs and devise necessary means of getting timely and accurate information across to them as this will help to keep them up to date about information on COVID 19 among others
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    Fourth Industrial Revolution (4ir) Technologies as Catalyst for Partnership and Collaboration among Libraries in Nigeria: A Review
    (University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2022) Akpobasah, Amugen S.; Mordi, Gloria N.; Owoicho, Ochigbihi P.; Omosekejimi, Ademola F.
    This study is a review of fourth industrial revolution (4IR) technologies as catalyst for partnership and collaboration among libraries in Nigeria. The study reviewed relevant literature on issues bothering on concept of partnership and collaboration, concept of fourth industrial revolution (4IR), technologies associated with 4IR, 4IR technologies that can be used for partnership and collaboration in libraries, cloud computing applications that are useful for partnership and collaboration in libraries, importance of 4IR technologies to partnership and collaboration in libraries and challenges of using cloud computing technologies for partnership and collaboration in libraries. The study reviewed relevant literature on the topic of discussion and the researcher used Google search engine to access scholarly articles from open access databases that are relevant to the study which formed the basis for the literature that was reviewed and from where conclusions were drawn.
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    ICT and Digital Literacy Skills: a Mechanism for Efficient Teaching in Nigerian Colleges of Education
    (Journal of Information and Knowledge Management, 2018) Omosekejimi, Ademola F.; Brume-Ezewu, Steven; Brume-Ezewu, Ejiro G.; Nwobu, Benjamin K.; Nweke, Angela C.
    This study examines information communication technology (ICT) and digital literacy skills as mechanism for effective teaching in Nigerian colleges of education. The total population for this study comprises of 1,500 lecturers in four colleges of education in South West Nigeria. 10% was drawn from the total population using a random sampling technique giving a total 150 which form the sample size for the study. Questionnaire was used to collect data from the respondents. Findings from this study revealed among others that that ICT and digital literacy skills when applied will to a very large extent be a tool for efficient teaching aid for lecturers in colleges of education in Nigeria, that computers, printers, photocopiers, projectors, interactive white board/electronic notice board, internet facility and CD Rom will to a very large extent serve as ICT tools that can be used for effective teaching. This study also revealed that most of the lecturers in colleges of education in Nigeria are not proficient in the use of power-point, excel and spreadsheet, cannot apply computers to solve real life academic problems etc. Recommendations were put forward to enhance the use of ICT for efficient teaching in Nigerian colleges of education.
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    Usage of Solar Inverter Technology as Alternative Energy Source: A Catalyst for Round the Clock Electronic Services in Nigerian University Libraries
    (Imformation Impact, 2021) Ogo, Emuejevoke P.; Omosekejimi, Ademola F.; Ebhonu, Sylvester I.
    This study examines usage of solar-inverter technology as alternative energy source: a catalyst for round the clock electronic services in Nigerian university libraries. The total population for this study comprised three hundred and seventy one (371) librarians from 40 university libraries in South West, Nigeria. The data collected were analyzed using simple percentage/frequency counts and weighted mean. Findings from this study reveale among others that the extent of librarians’ awareness of solarinverter technology as alternative sources of energy in university libraries in South West, Nigeria is very high; electronic reference service, online interlibrary loan service, online cataloguing and classification service, OPAC service, online current awareness service, electronic indexing and abstracting service, online selective dissemination of information service, e-mail service, electronic charging and discharging service among others are types of electronic services that can be provided round the clock in university libraries in South West, Nigerian using solar-inverter energy as alternative energy source and that the extent to which solar-inverter energy can be used as alternative energy source to power ICT equipments for electronic services in university libraries in South West, Nigeria is high among other findings. Recommendations made based on the findings of the study include: University library management should make it a point of duty and also take it as priority to allocate fund for the acquisition and installation of solar-inverter technology as this will help them fulfil the library goal of rendering round the clock electronic library services to their users among others.