INFORMATION LITERACY AS CORRELATE OF PUBLICATION OUTPUT OF LIBRARIANS IN TWO STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES IN SOUTH-SOUTH ZONE OF NIGERIA

Abstract

The nature of librarians as academic staff in any institution of higher learning demands that they publish regularly for them to move to the next level in their academic work. Observation and studies had shown that with the influx of information, some librarians find it difficult to publish and they remain in a particular position for a long period of time. Hence, this research work investigated information literacy as correlate of publication output of librarians in Niger Delta University Amasoma, Bayelsa State and Delta State University,Abraka in Nigeria. Three research questions guided this study in line with the here objectives of the study. The correlational survey was adopted for this study.Questionnaire was the instrument used in collecting data. The population for the study was made up of 30 librarians in Niger Delta University Bayelsa and Delta State University, Abraka. The entire population was used because of its small size.Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as percentages, mean,standard deviation. The study found that the publication output of the librarians was low; Librarians possessed information literacy skills; Information Literacy Skills influenced publication output of librarians positively. It was recommended that librarians should not just possess skills to access information for other purposes but they should focus more on how to publish. They should seek to acquire knowledge on new search skills which could be achieved with the interest of individuals on skills acquisitions and the help of the institutions and university librarians on organizing or sponsoring librarians for training and workshops