ICT Literacy Skill and Electronic Resources Utilization among Academic Staffs of Olabisi Onabanjo University

Abstract

This study examined ICT literacy skills and electronic resources utilization among academic staff in Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Nigeria. The study adopt descriptive survey research design of expo factor type and 351 academic staffs been all academic staffs in the seven existing Faculty/unit at the main campus of the university constitute the population for the study. The sample of 187 was drawn through Taro Yamane formula calculation. From the sample calculation, 30 academic staffs were randomly selected from each faculties/units as indicated in table 1 except for the faculty of law and the university Library, where 23 and 14 academic staffs were randomly selected respectively based on the total staff population.  In all, 171 questionnaires were retrieved valid out of 187 distributed which accounted for 91.4% rate of returned. The  questionnaire termed “Information Literacy skill Scale†(ILSS),  “Electronic resources utilization scale†(ERUS) and reason for using electronic resources scale (RUES) were employed for data collection which was validated by two (2) experts in the Faculty of Education and three (3) other lecturers outside the selected faculties within the university. The reliability of the instrument was determined through Cronbach’s’ co-efficient alpha (α) values with the following α scores: ICT literacy skill = 0.81, electronic resources utilization = 0.87, Purpose of using electronic resources = 0.76. Data gathered were analyzed using descriptive statistics (simple percentage, mean & standard deviation) and regression analysis . Findings from the study revealed a high level of ICT literacy skill and a high level of electronic resources utilization. The top notable purposes of electronic resources utilization as indicated by the sampled audience were to update knowledge/research purposes, to share knowledge, for publication of journal/ articles, for writing of thesis /dissertation among many others. Besides, the findings also revealed a significant relative influence of ICT literacy skill on electronic resources utilization. It is hereby recommended that special notice board through the library should be created across faculties in the university on lists of electronic resources and how to assess them. Not only that, the university management should made fund necessarily available either through TETFUND intervention or other means for subscription of more scholarly electronic information resources and databases  in order to build a strong collection of e-resources in the library for the usage among its clientele including the academic staffs.

Keywords:  ICT Literacy Skill, Electronic Resources Utilization, Academic Staffs, OOU, Nigeria.