Academic Librarians’ Differences in Perceptions on Organizational Learning Capabilities (OLC)

This paper presents the results of a study that examines the differences in perceptions of academic librarians on organizational learning capabilities’ (OLC) dimensions. A research survey method using questionnaire was distributed to 240 academic librarians in selected university libraries in Malaysia. A total of 78% (186) of the respondents returned the questionnaire for further analysis. From the findings, the OLC’s dimensions on information communication technology (ICT) was ranked as the highest (mean= 5.65) indicating that it was the most preferred response as perceived by the respondents. Using ANOVA test, the results showed that there were significant differences on organizational culture and leadership among respondents with different years of working experience. Besides, results also found that there are positive and moderate relationship that exist between each the OLC dimensions and knowledge performance. The findings are important to the librarians and the academic libraries for improving the skills of acquiring knowledge and organizational learning capabilities toward enhancing the performance of the librarians and organizations.