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Training for Religious Information Literacy and Community Dialogue: The experience of WOREM Theological Institute Library, Southeast Nigeria

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Abstract:
This paper discusses steps taken by the author who served as a volunteer librarian in WOREM
theological institute to train and equip clerics/participants who were students of the institute with
library, literacy and research skills to enable them impact their community and harness religious
historical data. It was discovered from an earlier research on clergy information needs that there was
dearth in indigenous religious history and data; more so works cited were mostly records on foreign
missionary activities in Nigeria decades ago. It was therefore needful to attempt bridging this gap with
related research using local communities by the student-clerics, totaling 35 in number. Most of them
only attempted secondary school education and were not really proficient in spoken and written
English. However, these were influential leaders and overseers of religious congregations in about
twelve surrounding villages under four Local Government Areas. Their peculiarity became added
advantage in generating indigenous and other primary data. The Institute’s library set up in 2009
spearheaded the literacy training effort which spanned for a year and half. Training sessions handled
by the Volunteer librarian (author) were on library use skills, research methods, grammar and speech
drills, writing and vocabulary tests, weekend exchange programmes, site visits to city libraries,
language translation workshop, internship, seminar and other presentations, as well as computer
rudiments in data storage and dissemination. Final training sessions culminated in field research
using a structured interview format to generate socio – religious, historical and contemporary data.
The entire exercise thereby established that in considering tools for ‘open dialogue’, the human factor
becomes a vital first-hand resource..

Keywords : Literacy, Research, Church, Nigeria, History, Indigenous data

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IFLA WLIC 2013

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Singapore : International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions., 2013

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IFLA WLIC 2013, Submitted on: June 12, 2013

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