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{"title":"Perception and Attitudes of Registry Staff Members towards Archives Management in the Federal University of Technology, Akure","authors":"Omonigho Angela","doi":"10.15640/jlis.v8n1a5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15640/jlis.v8n1a5","url":null,"abstract":"The paper investigated the perception and attitudes of registry staff members towards archives management at the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA). The study adopted a descriptive survey design. Random sampling technique was used to select 50 registry staff in various departments within the University. A questionnaire was designed for the study and administered to the selected respondents; 46 questionnaires were returned and found usable. Data collected were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Of 46 registry staff that participated in the study, 50% worked in the registry, 71.7% were females, and 45.7% were confidential secretaries in various departments within the university system. Findings showed that 95.7% of respondents are aware of the existence of an archive within the University. Though findings showed respondents with an average mean of 4.76 accepting the necessity for the establishment of archives for storage purposes, an aggregate mean of 2.80 indicated that the respondents were not very cognizant of archives and their management practices at FUTA. The study, therefore, recommends an increase in the publicity of archival functions in order to increase awareness among registry staff members, more funding for archival practices and training as well as re-training of archival personnel for more image boost of the archive.","PeriodicalId":142897,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES","volume":"75 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134011656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Effect of Library Security on Service Delivery in Federal University Lafia, Library- Nigeria","authors":"Suleiman Musa, Faga Asom, Daniel Matthew","doi":"10.15640/jlis.v7n1a6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15640/jlis.v7n1a6","url":null,"abstract":"Security is an important and complex challenge in contemporary societies. This study on library security and service delivery in Federal University Lafia Library dwels on the types of security apparatus adopted by the Library, the challenges associated with the implementation of library security for effective service delivery as well as the remedies to these challenges were investigated. The descriptive survey design was used for the study. The population of the study comprised 16 library staff and 491 registered students. Findings revealed that of all the security aparatus identified by the researcher such as surveillance cameras, radio frequency identification, panic alarms, perimeter alarm system, door intrusion alarms, nexpak/amaray secure cases, alpha security cases or extreme-pac cases, clear-vu one- time and em security tags, the library did not adopt any of them. In addition, it was discovered that poor budgeting /inadequate funding of the library, inadequate staff/personnel, epileptic/erratic power supply to implement electronic security, lack of institutional security policy, among others were some of the challenges faced by the library in the area of security of library materials. the results however points out that the strategies to enhance the implementation of library security are; improve funding of university libraries, employ more staff in the library, there should be security policy for the library among others. from the findings, the following recommendations among others were made : and disaster management plan, which should be made available to staff and fully implemented for effective library security management.","PeriodicalId":142897,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES","volume":"328 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116830616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Acquisition Variables and Effective Management of Information Resources in the University of Uyo Library, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria","authors":"Ima M. P. Usoro, Alphonsus Onyekachi Okechukwu","doi":"10.15640/jlis.v7n2a5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15640/jlis.v7n2a5","url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":142897,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES","volume":"144 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116609130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Chat Response Competency: Library Professionals vs. Undergraduate Student Employees","authors":"Michael Whitchurch, E. Merrill","doi":"10.15640/jlis.v7n2a2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15640/jlis.v7n2a2","url":null,"abstract":"This article reports on the qualitative analysis of 4,475 chat transcripts from the 2016 calendar year for the specific purpose of comparing accuracy and completeness between student employees and non-student employees. Using research done at other institutions as a guide, researchers developed a coding rubric, then coded and analyzed the transcripts. The researchers reviewed each transcript three times; once by a student employee, once by a paraprofessional and once by a faculty librarian. Researchers discovered that while non-student employees are slightly better at providing accurate and complete chat answers, the student employees are better at understanding and using the technology like their peers, who are the majority of the patrons who use chat. More importantly, this research confirms and builds on former research to show that having student employees as the primary contact for answering chat questions is not only as effective as non-student employees answering chat, but the potential cost savings, relative to time and salary, are significant.","PeriodicalId":142897,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125886153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"University Librarians’ Leadership Styles and Staff Productivity in Selected University Libraries in Imo State, Nigeria","authors":"Juliana O. Akidi, Chukwuemeka Chukwueke","doi":"10.15640/jlis.v8n1a3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15640/jlis.v8n1a3","url":null,"abstract":"It is not strange seeing most 21 st century librarians that lack the capacity to contribute meaningfully to the organizational growth and productivity of their university libraries till they retire from library service. If these librarians were to be from the onset of the profession, the profession would have long gone into extinction. Who is to be blamed, the head and the leadership style adopted or the subordinates? This is the thrust of this study, which investigated the University Librarians leadership styles and staff productivity in selected university libraries in Imo State, Nigeria made up of Imo State University and Federal University of Technology, Owerri Libraries. The study adopted the descriptive survey design using a sample of thirty-one (31) academic librarians, purposively selected. Data was collected using a structured questionnaire. A total of thirty-one (31) copies of the questionnaire were distributed and all retrieved. Data collected was analysed using frequency counts, simple percentages, mean scores and standard deviation, as well as presented using frequency tables and charts. Findings of the study showed the adoption of autocratic, democratic and transformational leadership styles by the University librarians. Of all these, transformational leadership style was highly adopted followed by democratic style. The study also found out the rate of staff productivity, which include ability to work till closing hours, efficient interaction with users, and bringing new ideas into the library, among others. It was found out that leadership styles of librarians affect staff productivity in the areas of bringing high staff productivity, boosting staff morale, making staff receptive to change and innovation, and eliminating laziness among staff, among others. There are numerous factors militating against staff productivity. Based on the findings, the study concludes that University Librarians’ leadership styles affect the productivity of staff under them and recommends creation of good working environment, and adoption of good leadership styles that promote cordial relationship between heads of libraries and their subordinates.","PeriodicalId":142897,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121490648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploratory study on Information Needs for Socioeconomic Empowerment of Women Artisans in Ikorodu, Lagos State, Nigeria","authors":"A. Adekanye, E. Adetoun","doi":"10.15640/jlis.v7n1a8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15640/jlis.v7n1a8","url":null,"abstract":"This study explored information needs for social economic empowerment of women artisans in Ikorodu, Lagos State, Nigeria. A total of 200 randomly selected women artisans drawn from six major economic nerves centers within Ikorodu community constituted the sample. Descriptive and inferential statistical tools were used to analysed the data. Simple linear regression was used to determine the link between information usage and socioeconomic empowerment of the women artisans. Results of the study showed that the levels of information usage and that of socioeconomic empowerment of women in Ikorodu were both high to a greater degree. Information usage was significantly related to socioeconomic empowerment of women in Ikorodu (χ 2 = 20.886; p<0.1). It was therefore concluded that the role of information usage in improving the socioeconomic of women artisans in Ikorodu was substantiated in the study. The study therefore recommended that women artisans in Ikorodu should make use of information to empower themselves socio-economically.","PeriodicalId":142897,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123201485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Global English in Theoretical Mathematics: Citation Analysis","authors":"A. Friedman","doi":"10.15640/JLIS.V7N1A1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15640/JLIS.V7N1A1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":142897,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125396627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Digital Media Lab: A Library Creative Space for Multimodal Learning among Students in Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria","authors":"Nse Emmanuel Akwang","doi":"10.15640/jlis.v8n1a8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15640/jlis.v8n1a8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":142897,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121597111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Survey of Drug Use and Crime in Nigerian Libraries: A Study of Public and Academic Libraries in Akwa Ibom State.","authors":"I. F. Ottu, Mercy D. Ebong, Mercy E. Ukpanah, Imaobong A. Etim","doi":"10.15640/jlis.v7n1a10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15640/jlis.v7n1a10","url":null,"abstract":"Drug use is a menacing problem currently affecting every aspect of Nigeria‟s national life. The clandestine nature of many drug use behaviours-may provide suitable conditions for the development of relative ethnographies, and one of such is the library environment as a secret hideout for drug abuse. Considering the seclusive nature of every library complex, the present study investigated, through a survey, the possible existence and prevalence of drug use network in selected public libraries in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Participants were library users and patrons, including students, library workers and other public users. Results indicate that negligible (low) level of drug use was reported in the library with corresponding low level of related crime. There were also other indicators of drug use comparing respondents‟ reports under several demographic factors including gender, education, marital status of users, residential status of users, recent history of drug use in the library, estimated age of users, estimated financial cost of drug use as well as indices of crimes committed in the library. It was however not clear if reported crimes, which are usual day to day occurrences associated with the library, could in any way be linked to library drug use. Recommendations were made concerning the need and urgency to provide public sensitization on the dangers of drug use not only in the library but also in general, and the need to prevent its consequences through improved security measures in our academic and public facilities.","PeriodicalId":142897,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES","volume":"312 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116609873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hospital Libraries and their Future","authors":"Eleni Semertzidou","doi":"10.15640/jlis.v7n1a2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15640/jlis.v7n1a2","url":null,"abstract":"Hospital libraries are an integral functioning part of the hospitals that house them because of the many contributions they offer (e","PeriodicalId":142897,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127253867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}