Library Stakeholders’ Perception and Involvements in Information Literacy Initiatives (Ili) in Federal Universities in North East, Nigeria.
ABSTRACT
Information literacy (IL) initiatives is an initiative which emphases on the acquisition and facilitation of critical thinking and communication skills that are transferable across subject disciplines,
functional knowledge that are meaningful and related to what is acquired to enable students become information literate individuals who can mastered the general information processes,
and specific processes that could allow them to effectively use information sources and resources with the ability to recognize and accept any information gap,
responding positively to the need for information, constructing alternative strategies for reducing information gap logically, evaluate and assess the effectiveness of the information found, synthesizes, store and make firm decision without prejudice of academic and research work standard.
INTRODUCTION
Background of the study Universities are academic institutions established for the purpose of high level and universal teaching,
learning and research for the development of society and to extensively influence the students’ critical and creative thinking for lifelong learning.
Nakpodia (2009) stated that the skills and high-level manpower needed for the growth and development of any nation are produced by the universities, which are seen as learning organizations.
He further affirmed that a university is both explicitly and implicitly built on notions relating to the importance of learning at an individual level, and the idea of learning as the basis for development is well recognized within universities.
Universities as knowledge-based societies have been frequented to become the bearers and symbols of national sentiment and they are therefore found to be at the front lines of the national efforts in many countries through funding and integration of new plans and policies for meeting the global literacy challenges in 21st century (Jarab;2013).
There is a clear manifestation and recognition of the vital roles of university stakeholders’ in the promotion of socio-economic and research breakthrough and academic productivity of a nation because of the paradigm shift from resource-based society to knowledge-based society.
Stakeholders are senior management, students, lecturers, librarians, learning support staff, academic boards, exams boards, government policy makers,
Alumni among others that have interest and some relationship with teaching and learning in the university with the power and ability to significantly impact positively or negatively to the topical area of interest in that institution.
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