Determinants of Information Communication Technology (ICT) Adoption among Librarians in Academic Libraries

Information Communication Technology has succeeded in turning most organizations entire world activities around including the academic libraries. This development has reshaped the way academic libraries access, retrieved, and store, handle; disseminate information to its diverse users. In libraries, ICT has been of immense benefits in every sphere of the library activities in the form of collection development management and consortia. Information communication technology has brought an unprecedented development especially in aspect of Online public access catalog (OPAC), reference service, selective dissemination of information, current awareness service and document delivery. This paper is a review of factors that determine ICT adoption in academic libraries. The paper discusses some factors that determine ICT adoption and how ICT can be integrated into various library activities to enhance effective library service delivery.

Keywords: Information Communication Technology (ICT); Librarians; Academic Libraries.