Current Issue
EDITORIAL
I am delighted to inform our highly esteemed readers and subscribers that the Nigerian Library and Information Science Trends (NLIST) journal is now online. I, therefore welcome our readers to the MAIDEN online edition of this journal.
Volume 9 Issue 1 has a total of nine articles and they cover various aspects of librarianship. Wada et al. x-rayed the potential of academic websites to enhance undergraduate students’ success. The authors opined that an improved understanding of usage behaviour and intentions can help universities design more student-centered, and engaging websites. The findings of Ani et al. on “The extent of provision of information resources to meet the information needs of law students…” reveal that law students need information in different areas ranging from professional to legal administration and research and that a variety of legal information resources on legislation, case law, law textbooks, reference resources are provided by the law libraries studied. “Knowledge sharing practices and digital literacy skills among academic libraries of university libraries…” an article by Ibitoye et al. investigated the knowledge sharing practices and digital literacy skills among academic librarians of university libraries. The findings reveal that knowledge is shared through seminars/workshops, verbal discussions, mentoring, and staff meetings. It also shows that the academic librarians in the area they studied possessed a high level of digital literacy skills.
There are also twin papers on makerspaces, while Ike et al. paper dealt with Makerspace acceptance and integration in public libraries, Wagwu et al. paper are on the extent of use of makerspaces in school libraries. Another paper by Wagwu et al. on “Gender sensitivity in library and information science management for effective service delivery in the 21st-century librarianship practices…” reveals a relationship between gender sensitivity in librarianship and 21st-century information management. Sugabsen et al. on cataloguing and classification tools and competencies in academic libraries, reveals that cataloguers and classifiers in the area they studied are competent, but are not using recent cataloguing tools like RDA and MARC because they are not well trained on their usage. Otty et al. paper is on “The Needs and Prospects of Upskilling Community Information Service Personnel for Societal Development in Nigeria” The paper recommends constant training and retraining of information service personnel to enhance their adequacy in innovation and competency in their job. Lastly, Okoroafor et al. paper is on “Agricultural information needs and provision to crop farmers in Ohaji/Egbema local government area of Imo State” The major findings reveal that farmers in this area faced problems of good access roads, lack of agricultural information, and finance among others. The study recommends good access roads, broadcasting of agricultural information in local languages, and provision of finance to the crop farmers, etc.
Editor-in-Chief,
Dr. Francisca C. Mbagwu
