Information Literacy Search Skills of Students in Five Selected Private Universities in Ogun State, Nigeria: A Survey
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2014-01
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Digital Commons (UNL)
Abstract
The study investigated the knowledge of information literacy and search skills of students in five
selected private universities in Ogun state, Nigeria. It also examined students’ ability to
distinguish diverse information sources as well as assess the effectiveness of information literacy
programmes of private universities. The sample consists of 359 respondents drawn
proportionately from a population of 400 from the selected universities. Descriptive survey
method was used to elicit data through the Monash University Library Questionnaire on
Information Literacy in this study. The data collected were analyzed using simple percentages. It
was found that preponderance of respondents have low knowledge of information literacy skills,
showed high deficiency in identifying diverse information sources and the various information
literacy programmes of the respondents’ institutions lacked hands-on. The study concluded that
sound information literacy skills is a desideratum in knowledge acquisition in the twenty-first
century and recommended inter alia; that information literacy skills be integrated into the
secondary and tertiary schools’ curricula. Thus, the need for an enhanced and continuous
library user education geared towards empowering students to be sufficiently familiar with
information sources, mutual collaboration between teachers and librarians to ensure integrated
mode of lecture delivery, constant advocacy and sensitization outreaches.
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Information literacy, information search skills, information and communication technology, library user education, information sources, information professionals, private universities, Ogun State, Information
Citation
Ilogho, J. E., & Nkiko, C. (2014). Information Literacy Search Skills of Students in Five Selected Private Universities in Ogun State, Nigeria: A Survey.