Digital Information Literacy Skills among Library and Information Science Professionals in University Libraries of Sindh Pakistan

Ali, Kashif

doi:10.52461/jimp.v2i1.1035

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“…This is important as employees' literacy skills will have a significant impact on organisations that rely on a skilled workforce to stay competitive in the digital age (Farrell et al, 2021). The importance of literacies skills can further be emphasised as interests in such skills in the workplace continues to grow (Forster, 2019), as well as in many workplaces job performance dictates that employees should be competent and keep skills up to date (Ali and Richardson, 2018). Furthermore, the findings of the study may help managers in comprehending how and why IL and DL are important, particularly as new generations enter the workforce.…”

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Workplace literacy skills—how information and digital literacy affect adoption of digital technology

Nikou

Reuver

Kanafi

2022

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PurposeInformation and digital literacy have recently received much interest, and they are being viewed as critical strategic organisational resources and skills that employees need to obtain in order to function at their workplaces. Yet, the role of employees' literacy seems to be neglected in current literature. This paper aims to explore the roles that information and digital literacy play on the employees' perception in relation to usefulness and ease of use of digital technologies and consequently their intention to use technology in the practices they perform at the workplace.Design/methodology/approachThis paper builds a conceptual model with key constructs (information literacy and digital literacy) as new antecedents to the technology acceptance model and aims to establish that information literacy and digital literacy are indirect determinants of employees' intention to use digital technologies at the workplace. The data set used in this paper comprises of 121 respondents and structural equation modelling was used.FindingsThe findings reveal that both information literacy and digital literacy have a direct impact on perceived ease of use of technology but not on the perceive usefulness. The findings also show that both literacies have an indirect impact on the intention to use digital technology at work via attitude towards use.Practical implicationsManagers and decision-makers should pay close attention to the literacy levels of their staff. Because literacies are such an important skillset in the digital age, managers and chief information officers may want to start by identifying which work groups or individuals require literacy training and instruction, and then provide specific and relevant training or literacy interventions to help those who lack sufficient literacy.Originality/valueThis is one of the first studies to consider information literacy and digital literacy as new antecedents of the technology acceptance model at the workplace environment.

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Workplace literacy skills—how information and digital literacy affect adoption of digital technology

Nikou

Reuver

Kanafi

2022

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“…An extensive search for available local literature on WIL resulted in only a small number of studies focusing on varied professionals such as scientists (Anwar, 1979, 1981; Naveed, 2022; Naveed and Rafique, 2018) library professionals (Ali and Mustafa, 2017; Khan, 2020), investigation officers (Naveed and Kamran, 2022), and journalists (Haider, 2019). No study appeared to have been conducted on IL in the context of the legal workplace as the lawyers formed an important professional group that guides their clients through the judicial systems, functions as litigators, and in adjudication and engage in intensive information seeking for their everyday legal needs.…”

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“…Cobus, 2008; Mugambi, 2017; Purnell et al, 2020; Rehman and Ramzy, 2004; Willson and Angell, 2017), journalists (e.g. Haider, 2019), librarians (Ali and Mustafa, 2017; Khan, 2020; Tyagi, 2017), managers (e.g. Kirk, 2004), police officers (e.g.…”

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Information literacy in the legal workplace: Current state of lawyers’ skills in Pakistan

Naveed

Shah

2022

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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This study investigated the current state of information literacy (IL) skills among lawyers practicing at the District Bar Association of Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan. A cross-sectional survey using a questionnaire was conducted to collect data from 297 lawyers. The questionnaire comprised 20 statements related to information literacy along with certain demographic variables. Each lawyer was personally visited in the assigned chamber by one of the researchers to record responses. Both descriptive (frequencies, percentages, mean scores, standard deviations) and inferential statistics (Pearson correlation coefficient, t-test, and one-way analysis of variance) were applied for data analysis in SPSS. The results showed that a large majority of lawyers participating in the survey never received any formal training concerning information literacy. However, most of these lawyers perceived IL skills as important in the context of their workplace especially in conducting legal research. These lawyers were more competent in the basic IL skills and less competent in advanced IL skills. In addition, the lawyers’ age, practical experience, practicing levels, computer proficiency, and English Language proficiency predicted their levels of IL skills. There was a critical need for the development of IL instruction programs for not only practicing lawyers but also for law students to improve their skills since these lawyers felt less competent with advanced levels of IL skills. It is hoped that the present study contributes to the existing body of WIL literature focusing especially on the role of IL in the context of legal work and outlining the current state of lawyers’ IL skills in Pakistan as no such study has appeared so far.

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“…Khurshid (2013) analyzed the publications from Pakistani authors in international journals with the impact factor and in some publications without impact factor. He barred frequently articles distributed in the LIS journals in Pakistan that are the favored source of LIS authors in Pakistan regarding their research publications (K. Ali, 2022). A thorough bibliometric study was led utilizing the four basic databases and the article surveys 62 years of exploration in Pakistan in the field of library and information science .…”

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Globally Published Literature on Library and Information Science Professionals: A Bibliometric Review ( 1970-2021) Authors

Aslam

Naveed²,

Ali³

et al. 2022

JIMP

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The study targets examining the exploration yield on the key terms of librarianship within 52 years (1970-2021). The investigation cover essentially the quantity of articles, language of articles, top research oriented organizations and countries, topmost publication source, highly productive authors, highly interested research area, commonly used keyword and so forth. A complete bibliometric study was directed utilizing the Science Citation Index data set, Web of Science (Core Collection). This research fills in as an asset for future research activities by revealing insight into librarianship. In particular, the outcomes uncover that the mostly chosen publication category is article and the research referred to articles are from United States and the top productive organization is also from USA. The preferred language is English for publications and the most favored research area is the “Information Science Library Science” during this time span. This bibliometric research is significant for all those researchers who relates to librarianship and who need to see the publication trends in this profession.

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Digital Information Literacy Skills among Library and Information Science Professionals in University Libraries of Sindh Pakistan

Cited by 4 publications

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Workplace literacy skills—how information and digital literacy affect adoption of digital technology

Workplace literacy skills—how information and digital literacy affect adoption of digital technology

Information literacy in the legal workplace: Current state of lawyers’ skills in Pakistan

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