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A Survey Of Covid-19 Information Dissemination Behavior Of Library And Information Professionals In Nigeria, Joy Iguehi Ikenwe, Idowu Adegbilero-Iwari, Oluwaseun Eniola Adegbilero-Iwari

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The corona virus disease reported in 2019 became a global pandemic in 2020. It now maintains an unwelcome status as one of the most difficult public health challenge of modern era. The disease is highly contagious much as the rate of information and misinformation diffusion about it. Whereas members of the public might have shared information on COVID-19 but library and information professionals (LIPs) are trained on the meaningful use of information and information dissemination through social infrastructure. Thus, this paper studied in Nigeria, the COVID-19 information dissemination behavior of LIPs, using the survey research approach. Data were collected through …