Librarians’ capacity development programmes and job performance in state university libraries in South-South, Nigeria

Abstract

This study investigated librarians’ capacity development programmes and job performance in state university libraries in South-South, Nigeria. The study adopted a correlational design. The population of the study consists of one hundred and twenty-five (125) professional librarians across the ten state-owned university libraries, of which Ninety-eight (98) librarians participated in response to the instrument of the study indicating 78.4% return rate. Census sampling technique was adopted. Questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection. The structured questionnaire was designed to elicit information on the demographic characteristics of the respondents, responses on Librarians’ Capacity Development Programmes such as on-the- job, in-service, off-the-job and mentoring (independent variables), and responses on Librarians’ Job Performance (dependent variable). Four-Point Rating Scale was utilised. The instrument was validated by experts in the required fields. Cronbach Alpha formula was used to determine the reliability co-efficient (r) of 0.88 for capacity development programmes and 0.94 for job performance respectively. Data collected were analysed by descriptive statistics utilising frequency distribution, percentage, mean and standard deviation. Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) was utilised to determine the relationship between the dependent and independent variables while the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 alpha level of significance. The result revealed that, there were weak but positive relationships between on-the-job, in-service, off-the- job and mentoring capacity development and librarians’ job performance in State university libraries. It was recommended that management should encourage more practice of internal rotation of librarians within the system in addition to proper orientation and delegation of responsibilities and that effective mentor and mentee relationship practice in academic libraries should be strengthened. This will give room for the active development of successful successors, amongst others.