Abstract
Social media technologies have, in recent years, become very popular and pervade all sectors of human endeavor including educational agencies. They provide ample opportunities for libraries to promote and deliver services in very efficient way. Today, it is very common to find one type of social media (SM) or the other in Nigerian university libraries. However, to effectively utilize of these tools, librarians have to be SM literate. Previous studies have reported lack of SM skills among librarians, but they fail to specify which of the skills are lacking. In an attempt to fill the gap, this studyexamined the extent of SM literacy of librarians in government owned universities in Kano State, Nigeria. The study was based on Vanwynsberghe, Boudry and Verdegem SM literacy model. Using total enumeration sampling, the entire four governments owned university libraries in Kano State were used for the study. Questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection from all the academic librarians of these university libraries. The instrument was validated by experts, and was found to be reliable at Crombach Alpha value of between 0.75 and 0.90 after running a reliability test. SPSS 21 version software was used for data analysis. The findings of the study show that academic librarians have low knowledge of most SM features, library service provision using SM. They have positive attitude SMuse SM multiple times in a day. The study concludes that despite the librarians’ low SM skills, it will continue to strive in university libraries due to the librarians’ positive attitude and very frequent use of the tool. The research finally recommends that librarians should strive to acquire knowledge and skills of using various SM features.