Students’ attitude towards the use of resources and services of university libraries in Imo State

Abstract

The study looked into how students felt about using the services and materials at two state-owned university libraries in Imo State. The study had five objectives and research questions. The study was proportionately stratified to randomly sample 783 respondents, which included 672 undergraduate and 111 graduate students from Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe University in Ogboko and Imo State University in Owerri. Out of the Seven Hundred and Eighty-Three copies of the research instrument administered, Seven Hundred and Five were returned and accepted as valid for the study thus giving a Ninety percent (90%) return rate. Simple percentages, mean scores, frequency tables for descriptive statistics, and the z-test for inferential statistics were used to analyse the data gathered. Additionally, the criteria for determining whether an item should be accepted or rejected for research questions one and two were based on a fifty percent (50%) benchmark for availability or non-availability percentage values, while the criteria for research questions three to five were based on whether the item's mean score value was equal to or higher than the criterion mean. Additionally, a 2-dimensional independent z-test with a significance threshold of 0.05 was used to examine the mean scores of IMSU and KOMU students on their attitude toward using the university library's resources and services. The study's conclusions showed that print, non-print, fixed, and variable capital personnel resources for all cadres are available in both university libraries. User education, bibliographic, cataloguing, reference, binding, and information services are all available.