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.
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