Title: Awareness and Practice of Information Literacy among the Professional Librarian of Public Libraries. Amid Covid 19 Pandemic in Nigeria
Author(s): Mujahid Sunusi Abdullahi, Yusuf Eissa Abdallah Seed
Publication Year: 2021; Volume 16, Issue 3, pages 117-128

Information literacy is knowing when and why you need information where to find it and how to evaluate use and communicate it in an ethical manner. The purpose of this paper is to examine the level of awareness and practices of information literacy among the professional librarian of Kano State Public library amid COVID-19 pandemic. Quantitative research method was adopted for the study using survey research design. The population of the study was 32. Simple random sampling techniques were used. And the sample size was 162. Questionnaire was used to collect data for the study descriptive statistics and frequency percentage ware used to analyze data. The findings of the study indicated that majority of the respondents were aware of the information literacy practices but were not practicing it in the library due to poor management and lack of concentration. Some also said its an academic library issue while others mentioned that the practices are the same with what they conducted in the library. The study also recommend that librarian need training and re-training on information literacy practices this will guide them in serving users with relevant information despite pandemic and any other occurrences that would not allow users to come to the library physically