Librarians’ Attendance to Conference and Workshops as Correlates of Job Performance in the University Libraries in South-South, Nigeria

Abstract

This study examined the librarians’ attendance to conferences and workshops as a correlate of job performance in university libraries in the South-South, Nigeria. Two research questions guided this study while two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Correlational survey method was adopted in the study. The population of the study was 108 librarians. Two sets of questionnaire titled: librarians attendance to conferences and workshops questionnaire (LACWQ) and job performance questionnaire (JPQ) were the instruments used for data collection. The reliability of the instrument was established using Cronbach Alpha method to measure librarian attendance to conferences and workshops resulted to the coefficient of 0.697, 0.741 respectively while instrument for job performance resulted to 0.669. The data collected for the study were analysed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation (r) method to answer research questions while t-test analysis was used to test the null hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed that there is a positive but weak relationships between librarians attendance to conferences and job performance in university libraries, and a non significant relationships between librarians attendance to conferences and job performance in university libraries in the South-South, Nigeria. Based on the findings, the study recommended among others that library managers should spend resources in sponsoring librarians on conferences that have direct bearing on the particular job librarians perform so that librarians may not end up been develop wrongly.