Abstract:

This research work dealt on “Situational Analysis of ICT Applications in Colleges of Education libraries in Nigeria”. The purpose of the study is to find out the challenges of applying ICT in library functions and to examine the benefits of applying ICT in library functions. A survey research design was used for this study. The researcher made use of purposive sampling technique to select fifty respondents from (300) three hundred library staff of colleges of education in south eastern Nigeria. Purposive sampling technique was adopted because the respondents are few and have the same features, for instance, the respondents work in college library. The instrument for data collection is the questionnaire which has thirty (30) items designed to obtain information on ICT application in colleges of education libraries. The mean statistics was used to analyze the data collected. The findings of the study showed that lack of ICT personnel, lack of standardization, lack of library software to mention but a few are some of the challenges of applying ICT in library functions. The paper also listed some of the benefits of applying ICT to library functions such as low cost of processing materials, speed and accuracy of information, better service at lower cost, influences accessibility of information acquisition of knowledge and skills etc. The paper concluded that Government should employ ICT personnel and experts in our libraries to handle the integration and at the same time provide in-service training and re-training for library staffs on a regular basis as measures to ICT application in Colleges of education libraries.

Keywords: Information and communication Technology (ICT), Libraries, ICT based library services.

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