ATTITUDE OF STUDENTS TOWARDS THE USE OF LIBRARY FACILITIES: A CASE STUDY OF COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, EKIADOLOR-BENIN
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ATTITUDE OF
STUDENTS TOWARDS THE USE OF LIBRARY FACILITIES: A CASE STUDY OF COLLEGE OF
EDUCATION, EKIADOLOR-BENIN
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.
Provide
detailed information about user’s opinion of the library services.
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
To learn
what library services, resources and facilities undergraduates use of their
learning and research.
To know how
satisfied students are with available resources and services in the library.
Examine the
student’s attitude toward computerized library services.
Find out the
term of provision of the services to the library users.
Find all the
hindrances to the use of the services in the library and how such could be
curbed.
To suggest
remedies that may help the undergraduates to use the library more effectively.
RESEARCH
QUESTIONS
Is there any
difference between library facilities and the academic performance of students?
Does
students satisfaction in the available resou9rces and service produced in
library?
Does
students develop positive attitude towards the use of library?
Does a
barrier discourage students from use of library?
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
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