SELF-EFFICACY AND RESILIENCE AS DETERMINANTS OF INFORMATION LITERACY SKILLS OF LIBRARY PERSONNEL IN STATE UNIVERSITIES IN SOUTH-WEST, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study was conducted to examine self efficacy and resilience as  determinants of information literacy skills among library personnel in Southwest region of Nigeria. Descriptive survey research design was used for the study with a population of 140 library personnel across the 8 state university libraries in the region. Due to the manageable population size, total 
enumeration was adopted as the sampling technique. Questionnaire was used to elicit data from the 140 personnel out of which 119 responses were found suitable for the analysis, using descriptive statistics, correlation and multiple regression. The findings reveal a high level of information literacy skills, self efficacy and resilience. Both self efficacy and resilience had a significant positive relationship to information literacy skills. Also there is a significant positive relationship between self efficacy and resilience, and the linear combination of both had joint significant positive relationship to information literacy skills. The research concludes that there is a need for high information literacy skills among library personnel which is determined by self efficacy and resilience.