APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGIES TO EDUCATION, TRAINING AND RESEARCH IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE SCHOOLS IN NIGERIA
APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGIES TO EDUCATION, TRAINING AND RESEARCH IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE SCHOOLS IN NIGERIA
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2015
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MOHAMMED, Zakari
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The paper was based on the research conducted on the application of technologies to teaching,
learning, and research in the Library and Information Science (LIS) schools in Nigeria. The survey
research method was employed. The population of the study was the LIS schools in the country while
the respondents were the lecturers, the students (including those who are still working and studying)
and the graduates of the programmes irrespective of their places of work and residence. The
instrument used for data collection was a web-based self-designed questionnaire patterned along the
research questions using the Google Doc. form (Drive.google.com). The online questionnaire was
hosted on the Nigerian Library Association (NLA) Online Forum, where every NLA member has the
right and privilege to access and utilise the services anytime. Six (6) weeks were given to ensure that
all intended respondents participated fully and responded to the questions raised in the questionnaire.
It has been discovered that about 20 types of technologies are available and are being used for
teaching, learning and research in the LIS Schools in the country. However, while it has also been
discovered that even though the stakeholders in the teaching, learning and research endeavours in the
LIS schools in Nigeria are aware of the relevance, usefulness and the impacts of technologies on the
scheme of education and training generally, this has not been adequately translated and refected on
the availability and effective utilisation of the technologies in the LIS schools in the country. The
paper concluded that despite the obvious infringing factors inhibiting the adequate availability and
effective utilisation of technologies for teaching, learning and research in the LIS schools in Nigeria,
concerted efforts have to be made by the primary and secondary stakeholders to change the course of
the ship to the right direction through encouraging the relevant authorities' direct interventions;
employment of diplomatic and managerial tactical strategies; appeals for assistance from within and
outside the country; deliberate provision of training and retraining of the stakeholders in the
provision and management of technologies especially through special training schemes; deliberate
employment of technologies experts and technicians to domesticate them especially through ondemand
education and training for them to fit into the LIS ideals and expectations in education and
training; and re-engineering of the internal management structures, mechanisms and strategies in the
LIS schools in Nigeria
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ZAKARI MOHAMMED, Ph.D, FNLA, FNIM
DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMAION SCIENCE
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERISTY
ZARIA, NIGERIA.
A Lead paper presented at the 3rd
AFRICAN LIBRARY SUMMIT and the 1s t
African Library and
Information Associations and Institutions (AFLIA) Conference held at the GIMPA Conference
Centre, near the University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana between 30th
May and 2nd
June, 2015.
Keywords
TECHNOLOGIES,, TRAINING AND RESEARCH,, INFORMATION SCIENCE SCHOOLS