Digital Librarians As Information Brokers In Academic Libraries In Nigeria

Abstract

This paper review literatures, on the digital librarians as information brokers in academic libraries in Nigeria. Information explosion in the digital age has chocked users with information overload whereby they find it cumbersome to filter the right and authentic information at the click of the mouse. Librarians are charged with the responsibilities of information collection, sorting, filtering and disseminating current and accurate information to their users. To have a valuable information it comes at a cost. Therefore, there must be a price attached to commensurate with the explorative skills, metadata skills, information literacy skills, competence skills among others. There are some indicators that measure the value of information in academic libraries, these include price of the information, information packaging, time span of the information, location/place, etc. The study concluded and recommended that digital librarians should make personal efforts to improve their skills in order to defend their profession and discharge their expected responsibilities and dispel the library from the threat of obsolesce and continue to be relevant and irreplaceable in the business of their profession.