SOURCE:

Faculty: Education
Department: Library And Information Science

CONTRIBUTORS:

Obinyan, M. O.
Nwosu, O.

ABSTRACT:

The study was carried out to survey NCE students’ perceptions on use of library course as an aid to their use of library resources in Colleges of Education in South-West Nigeria. Six research questions were asked and criterium mean placed at 2.50. The descriptive survey design was employed for the study. From a population of 60,481 students, a sample of 1,210 was drawn using the proportionate stratified sampling technique. A questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection after validation by experts in the field, and pre-tested through Cronbach Alpha method that yielded 0.743 aggregate value. Complete data subsequently gathered from 1,097 copies of the questionnaire retrieved were analyzed by employing the statistical mean to answer the research questions. Among the major findings of the study were that: students perceived use of library course as an aid to their use of all library resource categories examined in the study (i.e ICT resources, reference, reserve, circulation, serials resources and library catalogue). The study therefore recommends that students should be given increased opportunity to access “use of library course programme” as a veritable tool of enhancing their capacity for adequate use of library ICT and reference resources among others in colleges of education in the region to ensure their effective integration into our 21st century society even after college life.