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Information Literacy Among Undergraduate Students in Nigeria

Information Literacy Among Undergraduate Students in Nigeria

Stella E. Igun, Jessa Precious Odafe
Copyright: © 2014 |Volume: 5 |Issue: 3 |Pages: 14
ISSN: 1947-3494|EISSN: 1947-3508|EISBN13: 9781466653573|DOI: 10.4018/ijdldc.2014070101
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Igun, Stella E., and Jessa Precious Odafe. "Information Literacy Among Undergraduate Students in Nigeria." IJDLDC vol.5, no.3 2014: pp.1-14. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijdldc.2014070101

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Igun, S. E. & Odafe, J. P. (2014). Information Literacy Among Undergraduate Students in Nigeria. International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence (IJDLDC), 5(3), 1-14. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijdldc.2014070101

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Igun, Stella E., and Jessa Precious Odafe. "Information Literacy Among Undergraduate Students in Nigeria," International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence (IJDLDC) 5, no.3: 1-14. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijdldc.2014070101

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Abstract

This paper examined information literacy skills among undergraduate students in Nigeria. The scope of the study covered two departments in Delta State University, Abraka namely: Library and Information Science and Guidance and Counselling. The study was limited to final year students of the two departments. The descriptive survey design was adopted for the study and the population was 517. 103 or 20% of the population of 517 were sampled for the study. 97 questionnaires were retrieved and used for the study. Simple percentage and frequency count statistical tool was used to analyze the data. The study found out that ability to use information effectively to accomplish a task, ability to recognize the needed information, ability to access the needed information effectively and efficiently and ability to evaluate information critically are the information literacy skills possessed by some of the undergraduate students in Nigeria. The study recommended that information literacy education and electronic/digital information skills should be included in the curriculum of the undergraduate students in the universities.

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