Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to examine the dissatisfaction of library users and the manager of each federal university library vis-à-vis the complaint of the librarians working in those libraries on inadequate funding, lack of promotion, poor condition of service and lack of recognition which affected their career commitment. Design/methodology/approach -Questionnaires were used to gather data from a population of 381 librarians in the 24 federal university Libraries in Nigeria. A total of 363 of them responded and their questionnaires were found to be valid for analysis. The response rate achieved was 95.3 percent. Findings -The study found that job satisfaction has significant influence on career commitment of librarians working in the federal university libraries (F (9; 352) ¼ 11.058, p < 0.05). The study also revealed that demographic variables and job satisfaction accounted for 20 percent (adj. R 2 ¼ 0.2000) in variability of career commitment of the respondents.Research limitations/implications -The study ought to have generated data on demographic variables and job satisfaction as they affect career commitment of library paraprofessionals (library officers, library attendants and assistants) since they all carry essential library function. Practical implications -It is recommended that the library administrators and the managers of the university libraries should consider the demographic variables and job satisfaction of librarians when planning and making decisions on their career commitment. Social implications -The library managers and administrators in federal university libraries in Nigeria should formulate job satisfaction policies such as adequate provision of working facilities, provision of conducive working environment, work incentives (car loan, housing loan, study leave allowance, etc) for improving career commitment of their librarians Originality/value -The paper provides valuable information on the career commitment of librarians in federal university libraries in Nigeria.
Surveys factors affecting the reading habits of secondary school
students in Ogbomoso State in Nigeria and discusses the results.
Highlights the following inhibiting factors: the family background of
students where few homes are conducive to reading owing to noise and
lack of reading materials; the lack of functional libraries in most of
the schools surveyed and a similar lack of trained librarians or teacher
librarians; the failure to provide library periods in schools; language
teachers and shortage of equipment and resources for teaching reading
skills; and a heavy reliance on school texts, although students show
willingness to read more broadly, e.g. newspapers and novels.
The library serves as the nucleus of development and is crucial to achieving sustainable development objectives. That assertion is so because the information is the fundamental component that can be processed to produce meaningful development. In essence, information is a driver of growth and the characteristic that sets the world's industrialized economy apart from its developing counterparts. Information has been recognized as the fifth factor of production because it has a significant impact on how individuals decide to combine the four traditional factors of production. The difference between the developed World and the Third World economies was based on the availability and use of information for projection purposes. Several world developmental projections that have failed can be traced to the amount of information made available to achieve the objectives that were to be realized. Therefore, the challenges that libraries and librarians face were discussed and the library's role as a valuable information hub equipped to achieve the goals of sustainable development.
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