Ways For Generating Additional Income In Academic Libraries

The ways of generating additional income in academic library is the pivot on which all academic activities revalue in an academic environment. Libraries help the institutions to achieve their stated goals and the fulfillment of this enormous task is dependent on the adequate income of libraries to ensure the realization of the goals and objective of the parent institution. Infact the issue of generating additional income in academic libraries has been a typical for virtually everyone engaged in the education. Against this background, the state of funding as it affects the Alvan Ikoku Libraries is review of identifying problems encountered there in for mark of specificity; this research is divided into five chapters. Chapter one examines the evolution of academics effects of funding, aims and purpose of the study, scope and limitation and the historical development of the tow libraries under study. Chapter two deals with literature review, chapter three, examine the methodology of the present research. Chapter four deals with the data collected from the interview analyzed and discussed. The last chapter five took care of the conclusion and recommendation for the improvement of the deplorable situation of funding of the two libraries under study. Finally there are also references, bibliography and an appendix.