Perception of Librarians towards Knowledge Sharing Practices in Federal University Libraries in North-East, Nigeria

Abstract

This study explores the perception of librarians towards knowledge sharing practices in Federal University libraries in North East, Nigeria. Knowledge sharing practices are very essential to the existence of any library in order to provide well-polished information to its community. The study is quantitative in nature and questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection. Descriptive and inferential analyses were used to analyse the data. Findings revealed that librarians have positive perception on knowledge sharing practices because they share professional information in newspapers, magazines, television, radio as well as professional events like training, workshops and conferences among themselves. Moreover, one-to-one mentoring, distribution of manuals and documents, meetings, face-to-face discussions, and social media platforms are other media used by librarians to share knowledge. However, it was discovered that deficiency in infrastructure, poor interaction among co-workers, lack of reward system and lack of enough training restrict effective knowledge sharing among librarians in their workplace.