Title: Information Management Digital Literacy Skills and Attitude: A Recipe for Information Technology Adoption by Librarians in Nigeria
Author(s): Augustine Uzoma Madu, Patience Odenigbo and Kate Omadevuae Alawode
Publication Year: 2020; Volume 15, Issue 2, pages 187-200

This study investigated the level of information technology adoption and the impact of information management digital literacy and attitude on the information technology adoption by librarians in academic librareis Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey with a questionnaire as data collection instrument. The population comprised all librarians from six federal universities in Northeast Nigeria. A sample of 376 respondents was drawn through a simple enumeration method of sampling. The research question was analysed descriptively while the null hypotheses were analysed by structural equation modelling with smartpls version 3. The results revealed that the level of IT adoption by the librarians was high. Further results revealed that there was a significant impact of information management skills and digital literacy skills on information technology adoption. On the contrary attitude failed to pose significant impact on information technology adoption while digital literacy skills had a significant impact on information management skills. Recommendations were made based on the research outcome