INFORMATION LITERACY SKILLS AND USE OF LIBRARY’S INFORMATION RESOURCES BY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF NIGER DELTA UNIVERSITY, BAYELSA STATE, NIGERIA

Kakiri, Inemotimi Flint, Okah, Shadrack Ojameruaye, Mishra, Satyajit and Mohapatra, Niranjan INFORMATION LITERACY SKILLS AND USE OF LIBRARY’S INFORMATION RESOURCES BY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF NIGER DELTA UNIVERSITY, BAYELSA STATE, NIGERIA. Gloryland International Journal of Library and Information Science & Education, 2024, vol. 2, n. 1, pp. 56-68. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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This paper x-rays information literacy skills and use of library's information resources by undergraduate students of Niger Delta University, Bayelsa state, Nigeria. Information literacy skills include those literacy skills that enable an individual to identify the kind or type of information needed, determine the extent of information required, access the needed information effectively and efficiently, evaluate information in order to ascertain relevance and authenticity and ability to use information efficiently for a specific purpose. The research design adopted for this study was the correlational survey research design. The population of the study comprises all the undergraduate students of Niger Delta University and is made up of 16,000 students. A sample of 357 students was drawn using multi-stage technique. Purposive sampling was use to initially select undergraduate students who are registered library users from which a simple random technique was used to calculate the sample needed. The questionnaire was used to elicit data that covers all the variables in the objective of the study through Survey method. Data was analyzed using frequency tables, pie chart, Pearson Product Moment Correlation. Pearson correlation coefficient was employed in determining the direction of the relationship between the variables of the study and also the significance of the hypothesis at 5% level. The findings of the study among other things indicates that there is significant relationship between information assessment skills and use of Library information resources by undergraduate students in Niger Delta University, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The study recommended that a custom-tailored information literacy programme should be introduced at all levels to help students develop additional information literacy skills pertinent for their area of study.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Information, Information literacy skills, Information resources
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BD. Information society.
C. Users, literacy and reading. > CB. User studies.
Depositing user: Niranjan Mohapatra
Date deposited: 24 Feb 2025 21:44
Last modified: 24 Feb 2025 21:44
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/45910

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