Lawmakers' Information Literacy Skills in Locating and Accessing Information for their Constituency Performance in South West Nigeria
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2014
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Ojo, J.O.
Opeke, R.O
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Abstract
Legislators are representatives of their constituencies, they initiate and monitor development projects. link their
ruencies with both state and national government and generally help in improving the quality of life fo. This study set out to find out how legislators' are able to locate and access information that may influence
~ performance.The survey research design was used. The population consisted of all the 177 legislators from all
IX state houses of assembly in South-West Nigeria. The Cronbach's alpha was used to validate the
tionnaire which gave a reliability coefficient of 0.188. The return rate was 85.3%. Data were analyzed using
criptive statistics, Person moment correlation and ANOV A.Findings showed that legislators (64%) had a clear
erstanding of the information they needed for their constituency work, as the lawmakers (65%) were able to
cate and access information from current awareness sources such as newspapers and radio. Legislators (35%) also
nd it easy to retrieve information from community based sources such as traditional and religious leaders as well
- GOs (31%). For the hypothesis, the correlation coefficient of the information skills. abilities measured revealed
at for locating and accessing information (0.18p-value<0.029) had low significant positive relationship between
~m and their constituency performance. The null hypothesis were therefore rejected, that is the coefficient of
ermination (R2) 0.188 which signified all the skills accounted for about 19% validity in the lawmakers
nstituency performances.
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Law Makers , Information Literacy
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Ojo,J.O and Okpeke, R.O (2014) Lawmakers' Information Literacy Skills in Locating and Accessing Information for their Constituency Performance in South West Nigeria. The Information Manager, Vol.14 (1& 2)