ACCESSING AND USE OF INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY INDISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION IN AMIR SHEHU IDRIS SCHOOL OF NURSING ANDMIDWIFERY LIBRARY MAKARFI, KADUNA STATE

Abstract

This study examined accessing and use of information communication technology in dissemination of
information in Amir Shehu Idris School of Nursing and Midwifery Makarfi, Kaduna State. Three research
question guided the study. Descriptive research method was adopted in other to effectively conduct the research.
The population of the study comprises of the entire final year student of the School of Dental Technology with the
total population of sixty-seven (67) students and five (5) staff of readers service department of the library which
a total 72 as at 2022. The stratified sampling technique was used to draw a sample of 72 respondents.
Questionnaire was the instrument for data collection. The descriptive statistical tools which consist of tables,
frequency and percentages were used to analyze the data collected. The study discovered that computer, printer,
and photocopying machine are available in the library, the study also revealed that the impacts of ICT on library
operations are impacted minimally, the study highlighted that challenges encountered as shortage of ICT
facilities and lack of skills, poor maintenance of equipment, lack of ICT knowledge, and high cost of the
resources are the major challenge militating against application of ICT in library. However, some
recommendations were made that management of the school should provide adequate fund for the procurement
of ICT facilities in the library to ensure better performance, management should encourage the application of
ICT in those areas in which ICT is not applied to meet up with the ever increasing demands of the clients, there
is need for application of ICT in library operations which will bring significant impacts in libraries leading to
automated cataloguing, circulation information retrieval and making library operations to be more effective.