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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INFORMATION LITERACY PROGRAMME IN LIBRARIES

2.4.4 Inadequate library’s facilities

Sitima-Ndau (2010) reported on the information literacy programme at the
Chancellor College, University of Malawi where she mentioned that the library’s

information literacy programme equipped students with sufficient skills but facilities

to surf the internet are too limited. It had been observed that many students are not
adequately computer literate when they started their studies at Chancellor College

due to limited internet access.

Baro and Asaba (2010) proposed in their study on “Internet connectivity in

universities library in Nigeria”, that for university libraries especially in order to
deliver an effective and efficient services to its client or users including information

literacy programmes, they must have stable and strong internet connectivity in their

libraries.

2.4.5 Society awareness

Further reading shows that level of information literacy among Malaysian

society also not really encouraging at all. As stated by Yazid (2012) in his study, he
indicated that information literacy skills among National Library of Malaysia’s users

showed that their information skills for instance evaluate rightful information were
low, especially in terms of basic elements of information searching, evaluation and

awareness of legal and ethical use of information. This problem become barrier for
better implementation of information literacy programme.

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