Paper Title : THE ADVENT OF ROBOTICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN LIBRARIES: PERCEPTIONS, READINESS AND ATTITUDES OF LIBRARIANS IN NIGERIA UNIVERSITIES.
This paper investigated the advent of robotics and artificial intelligence in libraries: librarians' perception, readiness, and attitude in some selected Universities in Nigeria's south-south and south-east geopolitical regions. This was done through a proportionate sampling technique of twenty (20) selected University libraries. A 27 itemed adopted questionnaires was developed and used in the study. This was validated by experts and having a reliability coefficient of 0.80 was used to collect information from the institutions and librarians. A 4-Likert scale was used to measure the behaviours, opinions and attitudes of the respondents towards the posed questions. The mean were calculated together with the cluster mean. Findings of this study with review of literature support, revealed that the librarians from the twenty (20) institutions agree that the automation of library services with robotics and artificial intelligence is a relief from some difficult and mundane tasks. Furthermore, findings also, showed that most librarians are not receptive to the advent of robotics due to threat to loss of their jobs and redundancy. The findings of this study indicated that robotics are very relevant in unlimited coverage of academic library service delivery in Nigeria and improved user satisfaction is urgently needed.
Author(s): Ndubuisi Henry Odikwa and Peter Anietie Ekong
