Impact of information skills on information retrieval activities for public library staff in Ampara district

Abstract

Information literacy is the basis for the lifelong learning. Information literacy skills, especially for public library staff in an environment that is full of information is a set of multiple technologies are being developed is equally important. Information literacy comprised of skills which are an essential requirement for successful learning and career development. Further, the information literacy plays a pivotal role in Public Library Staffs’ in Ampara District for limited empirical evidence is available showing the relationship in information literacy skills. The study was carried out to investigate, according to control group with distance learning entirely the impact of information literacy approaches, which are grounded in pedagogy, on Public Library Staffs’ level and applicability of information literacy skills. The study method is selected control group with Distance learning design (with pre and posttest) and applied. The data collection tool was a questionnaire assessing public library staff. included 5 Principal Librarians and 17 Library Attendants formed the study population. The sample study population consisted of 22 public library staffs Ampara District selected by random sampling method was perch in control groups. The results showed that the Public Library Staff information literacy scores experimental group and control group. My study area limit control group before the distributed with distance learning materials was lower than average, so that in the control group pretest result and in the control group posttest result is high; while information literacy scores in the control group significantly increased after the distributed with distance learning materials. Also, the effect of education, respectively had a greater impact on the ability to access information. Public Library Staffs’ perform better in the learning and application of information literacy skills, whilst the application of multiple intelligences in helping Public Library Staffs’ learns facilitated better learning and challenging in all the information literacy skills. The data were analyzed using work sheet. Furthering this study sectional approach and collected the data through questionnaires among Public Library Staffs’ by stratified random sampling technique. This study showed that the training was impacted in enhancing Public Library Staffs’ information literacy skills as the greatest impact was on increasing the ability to access information. Due to the low mean score information retrieval program in the context of object recognition, there is a need for more training in this area.