School Libraries Service Delivery through Information and Communication Technologies Awareness: A Factor for Building Skills for Sustainable Development

Abstract

Most schools are still not keying into the global trend and the skills development to improve their services due to lack of zeal on the side  of school administrators to see to the role and need for integrating information and communication technologies into the library  activities. Students continue to be deficient of adequate skills such as information literacy, entrepreneurship and much more. This study  therefore focuses on school library service delivery through information and communication technologies awareness for building skills in  students and the school administrators for sustainable development. The study adopted a case study research design and the population was made up of all the private secondary school libraries in Abuja municipal area. However, six private primary schools were  purposely selected for the sample based on the ones with ICTs in their school libraries. Instruments used for data collection include:  Observation check list on ICT facilities, interview schedule for librarians and non-participative observation check on both librarians' and  students' behavior in using ICTs as well as open ended questionnaire.. Data were analyzed qualitatively using percentages and it was  found among other things that, by nature of these schools, there are ICTs in them but some of the school librarians lack technicalknow- how of these resources to effectively put them to use and teachers do not have much time to use the school library. It was recommended  among others that school administrators should make provisions for more ICT facilities in school libraries as well as  create opportunities for training and re-training of school librarians for more effective service delivery.