Does Information Literacy influence Intellectual Property among Liberians:The mediating role of Knowledge Management.

Abstract This research investigated the mediating effect of knowledge management on information literacy and intellectual property. A cross-sectional survey was conducted for data collection among librarians and students, recruited through a purposive sampling procedure and simple random sampling, from four selected universities in Ghana. The questionnaire was personally administered by visiting the selected libraries with written permission. A total of 573 survey responses were analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling (CB-SEM) to establish the relationship between knowledge management, information literacy, and intellectual property. The results show that knowledge management fully mediates the relationship between information literacy and intellectual property. Again, the study revealed that the information literacy of library staff had a direct and indirect but positive influence on intellectual property. This research would be a worthwhile contribution to the existing research on knowledge management as the mediated role of information literacy and intellectual property has fully not been examined so far.