Digital literacy: Survival skill for librarians in the Digital Era

Abstract

The paper is aimed at investigating what digital literacy is, and determining through existing literature if researchers particularly in Nigeria possess this skill, as well as to investigate what initiatives have been done in Nigeria regarding digital literacy skill. This is a review paper, as such extensive review of existing literature on the topic and the researcher’s work and personal experiences were brought to bear to help discuss the objective of the study. The main objective of this study is to determine the level of digital literacy among librarians and efforts in Nigeria in order to design a training programme for researchers. Additionally, a training programme was designed on DL to train researchers in Nigeria. Conclusions based on the literature reviewed revealed that there is still low digital literacy among librarians and as a result it was recommended that more efforts should be made to incorporate digital literacy programmes in the institutions’ curricular, as well as more training programmes for librarians.

Keywords: Digital literacy, librarians, libraries, Nigeria.