The Role of Libraries and Information Departments in Promoting Digital Citizenship Culture and Raising Awareness of their Students: University of Bahri Model

Rahma, Ayman S.

doi:10.21608/jsre.2025.359684.1771

The Role of Libraries and Information Departments in Promoting Digital Citizenship Culture and Raising Awareness of their Students: University of Bahri Model

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Ayman S. Rahma

Assistant professor, Library and Information science, College of Community Studies and Rural Development, University of bahri, Sudan

10.21608/jsre.2025.359684.1771

Abstract

The study aims to highlight the concept of digital citizenship mainly its teaching, building up, promoting it and disseminating its culture. It overviews the efforts of the Department of Libraries Information at the University of Bahri, in its teaching and promoting, and the most important courses related to it and the activities of the department, in addition to identifying the extent of awareness of the department's students. The study derives its importance from the fact that it comes in an exceptional circumstance, and the traditional study is affected by the current conditions that Sudan is going through, including a war that led to the disruption of traditional study in many educational institutions. The study used the descriptive-analytical method. It reviewed the intellectual production and analyzed the courses of the Department of Library and Information at the University of Bahri. The some of the results that support the trend in promoting and supporting the culture of digital citizenship, most of the subjects that include digital citizenship skills were reported that the academic curricula do not contain material specific to digital citizenship, and most of the subjects that include vocabulary specific to digital citizenship skills are taught in the final classes. The study recommends the need to design specialized courses for teaching digital citizenship skills to library and information students., and to take care of mental and physical health when dealing with information technologies.

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Education

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