Enhanced Strategies to Utilization of Online Information Resources for Effective Services Delivery by Public University Librarians in South-East Nigeria:- Edward Amadi

ABSTRACT

This study investigated the public university librarians' enhanced strategies to the utilization of online information resources (OIR) for effective services delivery in public university libraries in South-East, Nigeria. To guide the study, one objective, and one research question were used. A hypothesis wasformulatedfor the study and tested at 0.05 level ofsignificant. Descriptive survey was adoptedforthe study. Thepopulation ofthe study was 174professional public university librarians. Total census was usedfor the study hence there was no sampling. The instrument of data collection was questionnaire. Validated copies of the questionnaire were testedforreliability using Cronbach Alpha, and the reliability coefficient obtained was high enough (0.94) confirming its reliability. The 174 copies of questionnaire were administered to the respondents through the help ofresearch assistants onefrom each state of the South-East. 157 were returned representing 90% return rate. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics ofmeanfrequency count and standard deviation. The mean was usedfor answering the research question while inferential statistics oft-test was usedfor testing the hypothesis. The resultshowed the grand mean at 3.46 level ofacceptance by the respondents and agreeing conclusively that the public university librarians' utilization of enhanced strategies in online information resourcesfor effective services delivery in public university libraries is potent and accepted in South-East, Nigeria. Hence the study recommends that university librarians should aptly direct for the utilization of enhanced strategies for OIR utilizationfor effective services delivery accordingly.