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1.5 Significance of the Study
ICT as an advance technology, enhance
service provision in the library as well as teaching, learning and
research. Hence, library professionals are expected to use and maximize
the awesome potentials of ICTs in order to improve their information
search, storage, retrieval and dissemination and at the same time
promote effectiveness and efficiency in the library and information
profession. This study therefore, will be of immense benefit to policy
makers and library management in Delta State, to enable them formulate
effective policies towards the provision and use of ICTs in libraries by
library professionals.
Also, this study will be beneficial to
library professionals in Delta State, in the area of creating awareness
of the relevance of ICT usage in the library and information profession
by library professionals. In the same vein, this study will be of
significant benefit to students by providing them information on the use
of ICTs by library professionals in Delta State.
Lastly, it is
believed that this research work will fill a gap in knowledge and will
be useful to prospective researchers who intend to conduct similar study
on this topic in the near future and this will go a long way to
increase the literature base of this research.
1.6 Scope and Delimitation of the Study
The
focus of the study is on the use of information and communication
technologies (ICTs) by library professionals in Delta State. The study
covers library professionals in libraries in Delta State. The study is
delimited to library professionals in two academic libraries in Delta
State. They are: Delta State University Library, Abraka and Petroleum
Training Institute Library, Warri.
The scope of this study covers ICT
facilities used by library professionals in Delta State, the attitude
of the library professionals towards ICT usage, the level it use of ICTs
by library professionals in Delta State, benefits of ICT usage to the
library professionals and the constraints militating against the
effective use of ICTs by the library professionals.
1.7 Operational Definition of Terms
The following operational terms have been defined as used in the study:
ICT:
This is an acronym which stands for Information and Communication
Technology. It is the technology used for information gathering,
processing, storage, retrieval and dissemination by library
professionals and users.
Library: This refers to a warehouse of
knowledge where information resources are acquired, processed, organized
and kept for usage and dissemination.
Library Professionals: These are well trained librarians or information practitioners working in the library.
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