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Utilization Of School Library Resources By Secondary School Students In Nigeria
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The library is not just a reservoir of knowledge, information and human
experiences but also has made provision of accessing this treasure.
Beswick (1975) sees school libraries as a continuing change in the
pattern of school teaching and learning away from instruction and
towards exploration. In the opinion of Allen and Allen (1973), Ezewu
(1987), the whole essence of libraries are two fold. Service and
instruction service which involves provision of whatever materials,
equipment, assistance and guidance that are required by the user. One
cannot talk of the effective utilization of library resources without
considering the role of the teacher-librarians. The teacher-librarian in
other words known as the library media specialist promote access to a
broad range of information and ideas, in order to assist students in
acquiring the knowledge and skills that will equip them to not only to
locate but also evaluate and use information effectively and thereby
becoming information literate. Their services and tasks contribute
directly to the development of these skills. These include collection
development, organizations for retrieval of materials and information,
information guidance services, material production, student instruction
and instructional development services. School libraries are more
concentrated on the physical object collected rather than their
intellectual contents i.e. (stressing, cover over content). All too
often they regrettably also provide instruction in every conceivable
skill, and in every form of information sources available. Individual
students fundamental mental processes, including their developmental
aspects are often neglected and the implication for both teachers and
students of helping the young develop the ability to think about how
they are using information to solve problem are frequently ignored.
These and others are among the militators to effective utilization of
library resources by secondary school students.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE
PROBLEM This study tries to find out how and why students use the
school library resources and the factors that militate against their use
of the school library resources. Many school libraries do not have
reasonable collection of library materials and trained librarian to
manage the library, and some schools do not have libraries at all,
especially in rural areas. As a result, students are not encouraged to
utilize the resources of the library.
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The objectives of this study are as follow: i. To investigates the
problem that hinders effective utilization of information resources in
the library by students. ii. To identify the resources available for
study students’ use and know the satisfaction they derived. iii. To
determines the particular period students visit the library. iv. To
determine the purpose for students utilization of school library. v. To
determine the extent to which the students’ use of library resources
satisfy their information need. vi. To determine if students’
background such as socio-economic background parental level of
education, occupation, facilities at home, quality of residence family
size are significant factors in the utilization of library resources.
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