Transforming Students’ Knowledge of Librarianship through Library and Information Science Education in Universities: A Case Study

Abstract

This is a study on transforming Students’ Knowledge of Librarianship through Library and Information Science Education, (LISE). The main objective of this study is to find out current library and information science educational procedure as to determining how it holistically prepare potential librarians towards the changes in librarianship as a result of the birth of ICT. The research employed a descriptive survey design with a sampled population of 980 LIS students. In analyzing the data, SPSS output format based on simple frequency count and percentage distribution, mean and standard deviation was used. The result of the study prove that there is low awareness among LIS students on emerging topics in LIS for the transformation of the academic society and that teaching pattern is mainly theory than both. The result also shows that there are modern facilities but there are no RDA toolkits, functional ICT laboratories and effective internet services. The study also discovered that there is no room for students to evaluate their lecturers neither are the three domains in education generally considered in the final evaluation of students