Problems Faced by Library Professionals and Teachers in Practicing Information Literacy Skills: A Quantitative Study Conducted at Khairpur Universities, Sindh
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Current Status of Information Literacy, Library professionals, teachers, Quantitative Research,Abstract
This research examined Khairpur University librarians' and instructors' information literacy challenges. The study employed questionnaire-based quantitative research to achieve its goals. Data were collected using a standardised questionnaire and validated through a pilot study. All Engineering University and General University Khairpur Mirs Sindh professors and staff were the population. Library and Information Sciences faculty and professionals provided the data. The researcher manually handed 60 surveys under purposive sampling to Engineering and General Universities Khairpur, achieving the highest response rate at 92 percent. The study found that most participants were facing problems like inadequate IT infrastructure of the Institute, low speed of internet, lack of access to Internet facility, lack of awareness of E-resources, lack of useful pieces of training on library literary information practises, non-availability of full-text access to most journals and books, energy crisis/load shedding, information overload, unavailability of latest journals and books, energy crisis/load shedding.
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