Philippine E-Journals

Hybrid Library Collections, Librarians’ Skills, and Level of Administrative Support for Sustainable Environment in A Higher Education Institutions in Central Luzon

Milagros D. Rodriguez | Remedios M. Dela Rosa | Susana C. Bautista

Discipline: Education

 

Abstract:

Sustaining a higher education environment relies on effectively managing hybrid collections and continuously developing librarians' skills (Johnson et al., 2022) [1]. As academic libraries evolve, they now curate both physical and digital resources, including e-books, online journals, multimedia, and traditional books, while integrating advanced technologies (Brown, 2021) [2]. Hybrid library collections were rated highly across acquisitions, organization, and services/access. Librarians exhibited very high skill levels particularly in communication, organization, research, information management, and technology. Administrative support for sustainability had a strong rating with budget and ICT and facilities. The goal of this study was to explore the hybrid library collections, librarians’ skills, and level of administrative support and examined the predictive ability of the strength of hybrid library collections and librarian skills, taken singly or in combination of the extent of administration support for sustainable environment in a higher education institution in Central Luzon. The findings revealed that hybrid library collections were rated as "Strongly Agree" across acquisitions, organization, and services/access (mean = 3.67). Librarians demonstrated a "very high" level of skills (mean = 3.61), particularly in communication, organization, research, information management, and technology. Administrative support for library sustainability was at the "Greatest Extent" (mean = 3.51), with budget and ICT support at 3.49 and physical facilities at 3.53. Significant relationships were found between librarian skills, budget, and hybrid collection management. Regression analysis showed that acquisitions accounted for 45.8% of administrative support variation (p = 0.002). The study highlights the crucial role of librarian competencies and institutional support in sustaining hybrid collections.