Correlating Media Literacy Skills of Library Staff and Service Delivery in Academic Libraries in Taraba State, Nigeria:- Juliet Onuoha

ABSTRACT

The study correlated the media literacy skillsand service delivery of library staff in academic libraries in Taraba state in Nigeria.The correlati°nalresearch design was adopted in studying 112 library staffdrawn collection A^t ^^ranes in Tara^a State. A researcher-made questionnaire was used for data analyzed usi ° i coPics ofthe questionnaire were administered but 109 were retrieved. Datawas significance eSCr'ptlve andinferentialstatistics. The single null hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of decided usina^h^r ? ^lnearrepression- Consequently, thestrength ofrelationship between variables was ^udy shows th CreSWellcorrelationalranking andresultspresentedinfrequency tables. Findings ofthe skillfulcomoarin0^ llteracy skills possessed by the library staff was low as they were only Furthermore r ^formation on different media, detectingfake news on the media, among other skills, shows that the^*5 °Wed. ° correlational value of0.03 and hypothesis yielded a p-value of0.76. This library staffon^ ° positlve very low and insignificant relationship between media literacy skills of study recomme del'Veryin academic libraries in Taraba State, Nigeria. Based on thefindings, the literacy skills th $ llbraryauthoritiesshouldintensify efforts in creating the understanding ofmedia as apply them inii eSj.en^e andapplication to enable the librarystaffto acquire more oftheskills as well Keywords: Mp.h^d,scharpeoftheirduties, among otherthings.