Responding to digital technology integration in school libraries: Opportunities, challenges and prospects to school librarians in Nigeria

Abstract

This paper provided insights into technology integration and opportunities to school librarians. The concept of school librarians’ experience with technology integration and use was also discussed. The paper also provided information on school librarians’ use of digital technologies in school libraries, as well as school librarians’ attitudes toward technology integration. Highlights into challenges, prospects, and strategies to responding to technology integration in school libraries were also discussed. The basic aim of this paper is that, school librarians should as a matter of urgency respond to digital technology integration into their school libraries for efficient service deliveries. They should keep abreast the impact of these modern technologies on their parents’ institutions’ needs, and their work environment, they should realize the impact of digital technologies on information access and delivery and recognize them as tools that they can and must use to meet the information requirements of users. School librarians must bear in mind that digital/modern technology is not only a technology but also it manages with the library objectives with the adoption, school libraries can face the new and modern information techniques. Librarians must have the knowledge, skills and tools in handling digital information and that will be the key success factor in enabling the school libraries to perform their role as information support system for the schools in which they are attached.