Browsing by Author "Akinboro, Evelyn Olakitan"
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Item An Assessment of information retrieval competence among international students at the University of Ilorin.(Library and information Studies Group International, 2022-05) Akinboro, Evelyn Olakitan; Usman, Saliu A.; Eromosele, George O; Abdussalam-Bayero, Aminat Titilola; Ajala, Esther T; Busari, Suebat AThe study examined the information retrieval competence among international students at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. The quantitative approach was adopted for the conduct of this study. The research design adopted the descriptive survey research design. From the population of the students, a stratified random sampling technique was used to sample the students for the study. This is because the population was divided into stratato of the respondents. Male and female students duly participated in the study; a self-designed or structured questionnaire was used for data collection. Four (4) research questions were answered and two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The result showed that the level of information literacy skills and information retrieval competence of the International students at University of Ilorin was high. The study identified challenges, such as poor electricity supply, poor Internet facilities were factors that hindered their retrieval competency to information sources. The study concluded that their level of information literacy skill is high. Also, their level of Information Retrieval Competency is high at the University of Ilorin. The study recommends that the University and library management should organize more training for the International students to acquire information literacy skills for using information retrieval tools. In addition, they should emphasize different search and retrieval strategies that can adequately retrieve information for learning and research, and also the university management should make provision for good Internet facility and standby generator that address the issue of fluctuation of internet facility and epileptic power supply. The total population used for this study was 500 students. Four (4) research questions were used and two (2) hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance were used for the study.Item Relationship between Human Resource Development and Productivity of Library Personnel: A Study of Private Universities in Kwara State, Nigeria(FUMA International Journal Library Science and Information Management, 2021-12) Abdussalam-Bayero, Aminat Titilola; Abdulraheem, Jamiu Wankasi; Akinboro, Evelyn Olakitan; Adewara, Janet OluseyiThe development of human resource (HR) is very essential for all personnel in the library profession because this assist them in acquiring the requisite skills and knowledge for productivity in their workplace. The study investigated the relationship between HR development and library personnel productivity in private universities in Kwara State. Descriptive research of survey method was employed. One hundred and thirty-two (132) research participants from four private universities in Kwara State were sampled through census sampling methods. A validated, pretested (reliability co-efficient of 0.88) and administered questionnaire was used for data collection. Descriptive statistics were employed to analyse the research questions using mean and standard deviation. Inferential statistics were used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 significance level using Pearson production moment correlation (PPMC).