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Item SKILLS USED IN A RCHIVES AND PRESERVATION OF MATERIALS IN THE 21ST CENTURY LIBRARIES AND FOR LIBRARIANS IN THE DIGITAL AGE(Khalifa Isyaku Rabiu University (Khairun) Kano, Nigeria in Collaboration with Department of Library and Information Science (Yumsik) Kano, Nigeria, 2024-05-13) Goshie, Rhoda Wusa; Abdulkarim, Murjanatu; JImada, Aisha; Shehu, KokamiThis paper reviews the skills used in archives and preservation of materials in the 21st century libraries and for librarians in the digital age. Libraries and librarians must consider and comprehend numerous aspects of services that have emerged since the advent of information and communication technology (ICT). Librarians of this era are required to use digital tools to provide electronic service. Librarians should possess a diversity of internet skills. Amidst the skills is online skills and technology, which is a useful tool for identifying job titles, tasks, and talents (including technology knowledge).The paper highlighted the 21st century skills for archives and preservation in libraries and for librarians such as management systems, content curation, taxonomy creation, records preservation and management, competitive intelligence tracking, digital asset management, skills in scanning and filing digital formats, automated archival collections, management systems, encoded archival description (EAD), XML schemas and USMARC. The paper gave challenges of acquiring the skills such as inadequate training, non-challant attitude of librarians towards the utilization of modern technologies and lack of internet connectivity. The paper concluded that Librarians should want to grow by studying current skills that will allow them to compete with other librarians from around the world. The paper gave the way forward such as regular training and retooling especially with the changing in technology and vast growth of knowledge and the provision of superb internet.Item Information Service Provision for the Sustenance of the 21st century Educational Development in Nigeria(School of Science and Technology Education, Federal University Of Technology Minna, Niger State. Nigeria, 2016-10-04) Ikwe, John Adoga; Goshie, Rhoda Wusa; JImada, AishaThe increasing important of knowledge as a driver of economic growth; the information and communication revolution; the advent of worldwide labor market and global Socio-political transformations have today brought about a paradigm shift in human capital development in nations of the world. Conceiving and achieving a national aspiration and strategic planning in human resources development is undoubtedly essential to all forms of investment in education which, Nigeria, like most other developing economies are looking forward to. In doing so, Nigeria is also deemed capable of becoming a contributor to scientific and technological advancement. This paper examines the roles played by our educational institutions through provision of relevant information that supports the education for the contemporary sophisticated information society. Libraries and information centers in our institution of learning should address digital literacy, which, some school of thoughts now see as the secret sauce. The paper recommends relevant information provision in our present educational system as this aims at bringing in today’s world for the student because of the flexibility that comes with the contemporary learning through digital objects; social media tools-use should be highly encouraged as they provide a fast means of information sharing between information stakeholders in our educational community; it also recommends an urgent need for eventual update of the education curriculum to integrate the connections in the digital world