ABSTRACT
The competitive
environment in which college libraries operate and provide their services and
resources is one of the biggest challenges to engage today’s students. There is
a limited amount of high quality attention and time students have to be able to
be engaged with what the library offers them. Planning and designing library
awareness and information’s, literacy programs, particularly for new students
has presented itself as an on-going challenge for librarians world wide in
recent times. However, the goalpost keeps on moving and the players are becoming
more restless, demanding and seeking instant gratification. The purpose of this
research work is to present the findings of a study that examines attitudes of
students towards the use of library facilities students take a compulsory
introduction to subject during their first semester taught by both internal and
external experts on a wide range of topics including journey of information
presented by library staff. The library is also involved in the subsequent
delivery of information literacy programs throughout students educational
programs in an ongoing effort to engage them and to get them involved in
university wide activities. The majority of new students spend up to a year
undertaking intensive English preparatory classes. The curriculum for the
English as a second language program includes a learning portfolio linking
various levels of English competency with each other pre-intermediate,
intermediate etc to ensure students complete the program not only with
sufficient English language competency but also with information and life
skills to help them throughout their studies and beyond. The research will
examine what impact the library efforts to engage students in library and
information use and their learning and research has had by understanding their
pre-university experience, expectations and knowledge and skills about
libraries and information use.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
Introduction
Statement of problem
Research questions
Purpose of study
Significance of study
Limitations
Definitions of terms
CHAPTER TWO
Review of related
literature
CHAPTER THREE
Research design and
methodology
Target population
Sample population
Instruments used for
data collection
Method of data
collection
Administration of
questionnaire
Method of data analysis
CHAPTER FOUR
Data analysis and result
Research findings
Discussion of findings
CHAPTER FIVE
Conclusion
Summary
Recommendations
REFERENCES
QUESTIONNAIRE
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
The academic libraries have been described as the “heart” of the learning
community providing a place for students and faculty to conduct their research
and advance their knowledge. In the education system, an academic library is
the centre of academic life. A university library or any library attached to an
institution of higher education exists to support the goal of its parent
organization, since university libraries are an integral part of the higher
education system, they should provide support services for the formal
educational programs as well as for facilities for research and for generation
of new knowledge. It is important of any information professional working in an
academic or any other library to know the real needs of the user community.
Understanding the needs of the target group will help to develop the diverse
strategies that are appropriate to obtain effective results. Since the
university library is committed to provide excellent resources and services, it
has to develop an ongoing dialog with its user community. On the other hand
academic libraries have to improve the quality of their service to survive in
this volatile competitive environment. Therefore it is crucial to evaluate the
library service from customer’s point of view at the same time order to set up
user-centered service, the library needs to know the user and user needs. One
of the main tools that can be used to evaluate and assess the library services
is the user survey. It is impossible to assess the changing needs of the
clientele unless user surveys are conducted to determine user needs and their
reading interests.
A library, strives to play a leading role in the teaching, learning and
research activities of its parents institution, it should be aggressively
dynamics in the provision of its services and manned by personnel of the
highest quality, who possess adequate background, appropriate professional
training and experience and the proper orientation to meet the challenges of
modern university academic, use expectation from any information system is to
make available directly or remotely and in real time the needed information,
formal notwithstanding, in the university environment the library a major
information providing system support’s teaching learning and research with
information materials of various types (Anunobi and Edoka 2010).
The advents of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have however
drastically changed the nature of traditional library services. Perhaps in any
discussion of application of modern technology in the library, as revealed by
Ukoh (1984) the first thing that comes to mind is the computer, the computer
has made such a tremendous impact on the organization management and
dissemination of information that it readily commends itself to any library
ready to accept it when computers first made their impact on libraries
especially with the automation of house-keeping routines, recourse managers had
expected financial savings as machine took over the work of human. However, in
higher education, the real result has been that automation has enable institutions
to cope with great increases in demand without increases in staffing and how
they are able to provide a much wider ranges of services, to improve the
quality of work performed by students, simultaneously saving them time when
searching for information.
Computers in libraries have proved useful in assisting the information
processing aspect of traditional library, operations like acquisitions,
registration of readers, circulation functions and keeping track of reading and
research interests of user. Thus repetitive and untie data processing tasks
which characterized most library, are effectively and efficiently handle by
computer. The computerization of students library services brings with it many
benefits meant to improve the quality of services that the library renders to
its users some of the benefit of library facilities includes, enhanced
productivity, increased output, more productive tasks. In documentation and
information processing, network enhancement and perfect control of records management
and retrieval.
The facilities of library, therefore, therefore, lead to a change in the way
the library offers services to its clientele. Change is a natural phenomenon in
growth and envelopment. Humans being are known to respond differently to
changing situations thus, reflecting in their attitudes towards the object of
change fear of change is similarly a natural human reaction every human being
develops control over familiar situations and in most cases, feels comfortable
with the familiar than the
unfamiliar.
A computerized library comprises not only facilities and formats’ but cuso the
essential human elements users and staff, the success of any library system,
after all, rests not on how well the design work on paper in abstract, but on
how effectively they can use it. And it is the users of the library that
embrace or reject the new technologies, fulfill or frustrate, the intentions of
sys1tem designers and experience anxiety and disorientation, as a result of
their use attitudes are ending patterns of belief, believed to be predictive of
behaviour reflecting people’s biases inclination or tendencies that influence
their response to situation, activities, people or programme goals. Students
varied in their information needs and their seeking attitudes, they constitute
a part of society who is fortunate to have access at little or no cost
themselves a variety of computerized services in their institutions library.
This is made possible because universities use considerable proportions of
their budgets to provide these technologies for their students to assists in
the teaching, learning and research processes. One of the major barriers is
implementing new innovation in libraries is only technical but also attitudinal
as positive attitude towards; technology contributes to the better performance
in a technologically advanced environment. However, little is known about
student’s attitude towards computerized services in their institution libraries
and without a better understanding, it remains difficult for these libraries to
effectively provide these service5s for their users.
STATEMENT OF THE
PROBLEM
The use of library facilities cut’s across all professions in any society.
Awareness of the need for the use of libraries facilities has become very
popular. In the library, a computerized cataloguing system enable the use of
centrally produce bibliographic records other such services offered to users in
library include e.mails, online database/electronic journal access
co-nontechnology and OPAC .
The role of the information providers to understand, the need of the
users their attitudes towards seeking their needs only then can users optimize
the benefits that such services tend to offers.
However, not much is known about the attitudes of students of College of
Education Ekiadolor towards the facilities in the institutions library, it
therefore becomes imperative to take closer look at those attitudes, which have
an effect on how students make use of the facilities and will in turn affect
the overall success of the library’s facilities and programme.
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The purpose of this study is described by Cullen (2001) in the following terms.
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Provide detailed
information about user’s opinion of the library services.
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Help to certify the
librarians concepts of the services as their assumption about the user needs.
·
Indicate problem
·
Suggest solution
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The main objectives of the user survey were
1. To learn what library services, resources and
facilities undergraduates use of their learning and research.
2. To know how satisfied students are with
available resources and services in the library.
3. Examine the student’s attitude toward
computerized library services.
4. Find out the term of provision of the services
to the library users.
5. Find all the hindrances to the use of the
services in the library and how such could be curbed.
6. To suggest remedies that may help the
undergraduates to use the library more effectively.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1. Is there any difference between library
facilities and the academic performance of students?
2. Does students satisfaction in the available
resou9rces and service produced in library?
3. Does students develop positive attitude towards
the use of library?
4. Does a barrier discourage students from use of
library?
5. Does a library user require any particular skill
to be use library facilities?
SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The limitation I have in carrying out this study are too numerous in the course
of carrying out this project work. A lot of human defines came to play outstand
in among this short comings were financial constrains which in all practical
terms affects the investigations process so also was time constrain which was
heightened by the fact that the researcher has to told fast to her academics
while carrying out the study in the same vein, the researcher found it very
difficult locating recent materials, which were mainly textbooks which would
have the investigation more currents.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
Library: A library is a building or room containing
collection of books periodicals, and sometimes fits and recorded music for use
or borrowing by the public or the members of an institution it can be maintain
by a public body, an institution, a corporation, or a private individual,
public and institution, collections and services may be untended for use by
people who choose not to or cannot afford to purchase on extensive collection
themselves.
Information: Information can be define as data that is (1)
accurate and timely (2) specific and organized a purpose, (3) presented with in
a context that guides it meaning can relevance, and (4) can lead to an increase
in understanding and decrease in uncertainty. Information is valuable because
it can affect behaviour decision, or an outcome.
Services: A valuable action deed or effort performed to
satisfy a need or to fulfill a demand services can be renter in various from
such as Banking lodging and Health care services for example, most sort whether
it is a hmo or ppo these provide will typically see all patients, but people
not participating in the network will be changed more than those that belong to
the network, or A Banking arrangement under which a bank or supplier extents an
advantageous service (such as an overdraft or deferred payment to a customer).
Facilities: General, permanent semi-permanent or temporary,
commercial or industrial property such as a building plant, or structure built,
established, or installed for the performance of one or more specific
activities or functions
Department | Education |
Project ID Code | EDU0072 |
Chapters | 5 Chapters |
No of Pages | 60 pages |
Reference | YES |
Format | Microsoft Word |
Price | ₦4000, $15 |
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