AFFECTIVITY, INFORMATION SHARING, INFORMATION POLITICS AND CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING SKILL OF LIBRARY MANAGERS

Abstract

This article has been able to show the synergy between affectivity, information sharing, information politics and creative problem solving skill of library managers. It was able to identify the fact that the decisions reached by library managers in the daily discharge of their duties is greatly influenced by their emotional state which propels the ways they handle issues in relation to information identification, gathering, storage and dissemination which is referred to as the politics of information. It is their attitude to this politics of information that will guide and direct their information sharing for specific purposes especially for creatively solving daily routine challenges and problems.