Analytical Study of Undergraduate (BLS) Department of Library Science, (University of Maiduguri, Nigeria between 2000 – 2006)

Abstract

Documentary source was used to provide analysis of the BLS projects submitted to Department of Library and Information Science, university of Maiduguri between 2000 and 2006. It was discovered that there was no single BLS project for the year 2001. A total of 355 BLS projects were submitted for the 6 years. In terms of study area 196 (55.21%) projects were on North Eastern Nigeria. It was discovered that case study covers 176 (49.88%) of the projects. The arrangement of the BLS projects by titles in ranked order showed that "problems, development and prospects in libraries" top the list with 46 (12.96%) scores. Low scores were recorded for projects on Current Awareness Services (CAS), Library cooperation, library standard etc with each having 1 (0.28%) project title.