MOTIVATION TO USE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS BY LIBRARIANS IN

The study examined the Motivation to use Artificial Intelligence tools by librarians in Oyo State, Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey-correlational research design and a total enumeration sample procedure of 73 librarians from nine universities in Oyo State, Nigeria. The study instrument was a structured questionnaire, data was analysed using SPSS statistical data and results were presented in frequency count, simple percentages, means, standard deviation, Pearson Product-Moment Correlation (PPMC) and visualise in tables. The findings indicated that use of AI tools by librarian is low with mean score of x=1.84, however, ChatGPT and Grammarly were the most used. Intelligent search and discovery: to discover relevant resources more efficiently ( x =2.87), is the highest purpose of use of AI tools, the level of user expectancy ( x = 3.20), performance expectancy ( x = 3.27), facilitating condition ( x =3.37) and social influence ( x =2.69) were all above the threshold ( x =2.5) and the Motivation to use AI has significant relationship on use of AI tools by librarians with p-value (r=.287, n=60, p(.026)