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The Challenges Of Acquisition Of Library Materials And Services To The Users In Law Library In Ekiti State University
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Statement of the problem
The present economic dislocation that is
ravaging the entire world is also affecting the academic libraries in
developing countries, According to Anunobi, (2012) the key challenges
affecting the acquisitions of materials in academic libraries include:
inadequate funding, economic dislocations, dearth of current books, due
process, lack of current acquisition tools. Agyen-Gyasi et al. (2010)
further indicate that special libraries in Nigeria Universities face
several challenges including increasing costs of materials and limited
budget (that reduces the amount of materials to be acquired). As the law
collection began to grow and expand, the need to house the materials in
a separate apartment that would be contiguous with the faculty of law
became highly desirable if the law library was to justify its
establishment and fulfill its major objective of serving the academic
needs of the students and teachers of the law faculty. Obviously, Law is
a specialized and highly technical subject and this attribute has made
it the preserve of professional body of practitioners which makes it
different from other disciplines in the social science group or other
subject categories, hence the need for a balanced and up-to-date law
library collection. However, selection and acquisition of resources into
law libraries is bedeviled with problems. Therefore is it against this
backdrop that this study seeks to the challenges of acquisition of
library materials and services to the users in law library in Ekiti
State University.
Objective of the Study
The broad objective of
this study is to examine the challenges of acquisition of library
materials and services to the users in law library in Ekiti State
University. Specifically, the study seeks to:
To find out the types of legal materials acquired and selected at the faculty of law library.
To ascertain those involved in the selection and acquisition of legal materials at the faculty of law library.
To identify the tools used in the acquisition of legal materials at the faculty of law library.
To find out the problems encountered in selection and acquisition of legal materials at the faculty of law library.
Research Question
The research is guided by the following question:
What types of legal materials are been selected and acquired at the faculty of law library?
Who are the people involved in the selection and acquisition of legal materials at the faculty of law library?
What kind of tools is used in selection and acquisition of legal materials at the faculty of law library?
What are the problems encountered in selection and acquisition of legal materials?
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The objective of this study is to examine the challenges of acquisition of library materials and services to the users in law library in Ekiti State University. Survey research design was employed for the study and with aid of convenient sampling selected forty-one(41) participant who are Law library librarian, dean faculty of law, law lecturers and other library staff in Ekiti State University as the sample size for this study. The sources of data collection was both primary and secondary with ... Continue reading---
