Librarians Attitude towards Information and Communication Technology Hardware Usage in University Libraries in South-South and South-West, Nigeria

Abstract

Following the emergence of ICT, individuals, offices, organizations, institutions and libraries particularly in developing countries are striving to take advantage of this ICT for their services. This has occasioned a new avenue of library services even though this ICT is being underutilized in most university libraries in developing countries, which may lead to poor services in the libraries. Observation has shown that librarians’ attitude towards ICT usage is not encouraging. The purpose of this study is to investigate librarian’s attitude, towards information and communication technology hardware usage in these university Libraries in South-south and South-west, Nigeria. The population of the study consists of 512 librarians in these University libraries at the time of this study. The census sampling techniques was used to study the entire population of the study, questionnaire was used, to elicit information from the librarians their ICT hardware attitude and usage. The data were collected and statistical mean, standard deviation and Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMCC) were used to answer research question and hypothesis, respectively. The study revealed that librarian’s have positive attitude towards usage of ICT hardware in University libraries in the South-south and South-west, Nigeria.