Competency need assessment for academic teaching librarians in higher learning institutions/ Mohd Razif Dzulkipli, Roziya Abu and Norshila Shaifuddin

Dzulkipli, Mohd Razif and Abu, Roziya and Shaifuddin, Norshila (2025) Competency need assessment for academic teaching librarians in higher learning institutions/ Mohd Razif Dzulkipli, Roziya Abu and Norshila Shaifuddin. Journal of Information and Knowledge Management (JIKM), 15 (1). pp. 121-130. ISSN 2289-5337

Abstract

Academic librarian works in academic library and perform task of developing information literacy and teaches in classes to educate higher learning institution’s stakeholder. The article is to assess the need of competency index for teaching librarian especially in academic libraries. This need assessment is a descriptive and exploratory research, was conducted to Chief Librarians and teaching librarians who serves public academic libraries. The objective of this analysis is to identify whether teaching librarian needs specific competencies to validate their practice of pedagogy in academic libraries. A preliminary study through descriptive research which involved sample size of 20 prominent library administrators and 20 teaching librarians from public universities in higher education. A set of 7-10 questions was sent through email to all public academic library’s Chief Librarians and teaching librarian. 95% of them responded to the questionnaire. The result shows that, 85% of the Chief Librarians agrees that teaching librarian need specific range of competence index so they can successfully perform the pedagogy practice.

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Item Type: Article
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Dzulkipli, Mohd Razif
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Abu, Roziya
roziya307@uitm.edu.my
Shaifuddin, Norshila
norshila74@uitm.edu.my
Subjects: Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > University and college. Academic libraries
Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Personnel. Librarians
Divisions: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor > Puncak Perdana Campus > Faculty of Information Management
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Information and Knowledge Management (JIKM)
UiTM Journal Collections: Listed > International Journal of Information and Knowledge Management (JIKM)
ISSN: 2289-5337
Volume: 15
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 121-130
Keywords: Academic librarian, Competency, Need assessment, Teaching librarian
Date: April 2025
URI: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/113440
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