Acquisition Variables and Effective Management of Information Resources in the University of Uyo Library, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

Abstract

This study was carried out to examine the relationship between acquisition variables and effective management of information resources in the University of Uyo Library. The population of the study comprised of twenty seven academic librarians from the University of Uyo library. Census sampling technique was used for the study. The instrument for data collection was a researcher-made questionnaire titled “Acquisition and Effective Management of Information Resources Questionnaire (AEMIRQ). Simple percentages was used for answering research questions while Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) was used for testing the hypotheses. The result showed that there is a significant relationship between resource purchase, donation/gifts, resource sharing and effective management of information resources in the University of Uyo library. However, legal deposit showed no relationship. It was recommended among others that resource sharing should be enhanced to boost the collections of the library while the library management should encourage deposit of publications that are published by authors within the university community to the library.