ACCESSIBILITY TO INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY, ITS VALUE IN USE AND USERS’ ATTITUDE AMONG SELECTED POLYTECHNIC LIBRARIES IN KWARA STATE, NIGERIA
BY:
SALAWU, K.Y
APRIL 2017
ABSTRACT
This research was conducted to investigate and provide new insights on ICT accessibility, the value in use, and users' attitudes in Kwara State Polytechnic and Federal Polytechnic Offa libraries. It examined the provision of ICT to the students and researchers as well by both institution managements, user’s accessibility to the ICT effectiveness of the ICT components and challenges they faced accessing these ICT components in the library. A survey research method was adopted, using questionnaire as the instrument for
gathering data, also tables and simple percentage were used for data presentation to aid easy discussion of findings and interpretation of the result. More also questionnaires were administered to 100 randomly selected students and staff in each of the institutions that formed the population of this study. However the study revealed that both institutions made provisions for ICT components, but they are not adequate enough, also results indicated that users have access to these ICT components, not only that greater number of them access ICT in the libraries frequently. Part of the findings also is that users of theses ICT components used it for assignment, recreational purpose, and for research, however, results show that lack of adequate facilities and epileptic power supply is the major problem users faced while accessing ICT components in the library. And finally some appropriate recommendations were put forward to solve identified problems during the course of this study. Some of which are: school and library management should make provision of ICT in the library a priority, the available ICT components in the library should be made accessible to the users at all time, also part of the recommendations was that adequate attention should be given to training and re-training of staffs managing the ICT components.
