Tella Adeyinka is an Ass. Prof. in the Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Communication and Information Sciences, University of Ilorin, Nigeria; and a Visiting Professor at the Department of Information Science, University of South Africa.

Tella attended St. Andrews College of Education, Oyo, in Oyo State, Nigeria from 1989-92, where he obtained a national certificate in education (NCE) which qualifies him as a professional teacher. He later gained direct entry admission to the most prestigious university in Nigeria i.e. The University of Ibadan where He obtained a Bachelor Degree Certificate in Guidance and Counselling/Political Science and graduated with Second Class Honours, Upper Division.

After his Youth Core in the year 2000, Tella enrolled for a Master’s Degree programme in Counselling Psychology at the same University of Ibadan and finished in 2001. Immediately thereafter, Tella enrolled for another Master’s Degree programme in Library and Information Studies at the same university and finished in 2004.

Tella returned to Counselling Psychology to commence a Ph.D. degree in Test, Measurement, and Evaluation. He was about to present His proposal for the Ph.D. when the result of the Commonwealth Scholarship which he earlier applied for was released. Tella eventually won the Commonwealth Scholarship to Study Library and Information Science at the University of Botswana in Gaborone in Oct 2005 and finished on Sept. 29th, 2009.


Tella was rated no 28 scientists in Nigeria and by implication no 1 in his University in the ranking of scientist in Nigeria released by Webometrics (Web of Science and Google) in maiden edition released in March 2015; and No 35 in the subsequent ratings.

In 2007, Tella was awarded a small grant for thesis writing for the Ph.D. students category by the council for the development of social science research in Africa (CODESRIA).

Tella is an editorial member of many highly-rated reputable journals including:
i. Library Philosophy and Practice – the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA.
ii. Journal of University Research - Maltepe University, Istanbul, Turkey.
iii. African Regional Journal of Knowledge Management – Technical University, Kenya.
iv. Zambian Journal of Library and Information Science – University of Zambia.

Currently, Tella is the Editor-in-Chief, Ilorin Varsity International Journal of Library and Information Science, and a former Editor-in-Chief- International Journal of Information Processing and Communication (IJIPC), a journal of the Faculty of Communication and Information Sciences, University of Ilorin, Nigeria.

Tella is a reviewer of many Web of Science LIS journals, including:
i. Computer in Human Behaviour – Elsevier
ii. Journal of Academic Librarianship - Elsevier
iii. Global Knowledge and Information – Emerald
iv. The Electronic Library – Emerald
v. Educational Technology and Society -National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
vi. Education and Information Technologies - Springer
vii. Behavior and Information Technology – Taylor and Francis
viii. New Review of Academic Librarianship – Taylor and Francis
ix. New Review of Information Networking – Taylor and Francis
x. Mousiaion: South African Journal of Information Studies – University of South Africa
xi. Malaysian Journal of Educational Technology – Teachers Association of Malaysia, etc.

Tella is an external examiner for LIS Ph.D. candidates in the following Universities:
i. Babcock University, Nigeria
ii. University of Calabar, Nigeria
iii. University of Ibadan, Nigeria
iv. Bayero University, Kano in Nigeria
v. University of Fort Hare, South Africa
vi. University of Zululand, South Africa
vii. University of South-Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
viii. University of KwaZulu-Natal,Pietermaritzburg,South Africa
ix. The University of Zambia in Lusaka, Zambia
x. Annamalai University, Tamil-Nadu, India
xi. Alagapa University, India
xii. Bharathiar University, India.

Awards and Honours
Tella has the following awards to his credit:
i. Visiting Research Fellow - Department of Information Science, University of South Africa (UNISA) in Pretoria South Africa in 2016 for three years period – 2016-2019.
ii. Visiting Researcher/Professor, Department of Information Science, UNISA, 2019 -2020.
iii. Dr. T.M. Salisu Award for the Most Published Librarian by the Nigerian Library Association, 2015.
iv. Dr. T.M. Salisu Award for the Most Published Librarian by the Nigerian Library Association, 2017.
v. Dr. T.M. Salisu Award for the Most Published Librarian by the Nigerian Library Association, 2018.
vi. CODESRIA Award for Small Grant for Thesis Writing – 2007.
vii. Commonwealth Scholarship to Study Ph.D., in LIS – Oct. 2005 – Sept. 2009.
viii. Federal Government of Nigeria Postgraduate Scholarship Award – 2002.
Tella has successfully supervised 15 Masters Dissertations (6 in computer Science & 9 in LIS) and FIVE Ph.D. candidates who are now lecturers in Nigerian Universities.

As traveling is part of education, Tella has visited Countries such as United State of America, Italy, Portugal, United Arab Emirate-Abu-Dhabi, Qatar, South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya, Cote D'Ivoire, Togo, and The Republic of Benin.

Tella has a passion for reading, researching, listening to the news, and assisting people in academic engagements; but hates and detests patronising predatory publishers or publishing in predatory journals.

Currently, Tella has published 210 academic papers mostly in Web of Science/Scimago ranked journals, edited conference proceedings, and chapters in books. Besides, Tella has edited six information Science reference texts. Tella is available for any research assistant by the research students either at masters or doctoral levels. He is also available for any local or international research collaboration.