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Staff Development Programme In The Academic Library In Nigeria
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CHAPTER ONE
1.0 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
1.1 INTRODUCTION
The
hallmark of every organization is its human factor. The effectiveness of
academic libraries depends on the efficiency of their staff development
programme.
However, the term staff development covers a broad range
of activities designed to provide staff with knowledge and skills that
are directly related to their role and responsibilities in the library
just as in state polytechnic, their staff undergo as a process of
imparting the knowledge which they use, in carrying out the activities
of the library effectively. In other words, the academic library
requires competent staff that enable them to render services to the
clientele.
According to Corto (1986), training seeks to improve and
develop the knowledge, skill and attribute of employees. More so, the
aspect of the staff will also help in the development of the academic
libraries for instance, in the case of Imo state polytechnic library it
has been that the staff there are not active or have the knowledge on
how to take care of the library or run the library, your will see that
the students will be finding it boring to be making use of the library
or if the staff running the library are not capable and they are the
harsh type, you will see that the students in that school will be
finding it difficult or not having the goal to make use of the library.
In
that case, you will see that the library will not develop up to the
state it is now. In this, the staff development incorporate the skill
development of the entire staff both the professional and
non-professionals.
Similarly, the now employee need some educational
training that will help to implicate their power factor while the order
staff required training to keep them alert to the demands of the
clientele.
Furthermore, it is necessary that the new employees that
are employ in the library (i.e. the academic especially Imo state
polytechnic library staff) should have intensive training on how to make
use of the library and how to be police to the students so that it will
be easy for them and the students to interact well and have a smooth
work in the library.
The essence of staff development in the academic
libraries is to ensure that the maximum potentials are tapped from the
employees. This yield specialization in a situation whereby the
materials resources of the library are in abundance there is need to
have capable staff to manage these resources effectively the achievement
of the organizational goal of Imo state polytechnic library
fundamentally depends on the effective development, training of staff
and the proper use of its human resource. More so, human resources
managers in Imo state polytechnic library must systematically identify
the component required by library personnel in the information
communication technology (ICT) age and plant according to it.
Furthermore
the introduction of information communication technologies becomes an
indisputable tool in development of staff. It is indeed, an indisputable
fact that libraries have metamorphosed from conventional libraries to
electronic library (e-library). Therefore, all libraries are now
embracing on how to apply information communication technology on daily
basis.
As well, balanced development programme formularize an
employee with basic information and routines of the library operators,
will prepare staff for the challenges of complex modern technology which
requires an integration of activities, persons of diverse and
specialized competence.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The topic is on staff development programmes in academic libraries which deals with the management of staff in academic libraries on how they can be motivated, taking care of and being treated well in the programme conducted for them in order to render good services to the users of academic libraries.The objectives of the study include: to identify staff development programmes that are carried out in Imo state polytechnic library and also to state polytechnic is effective and consistent. A metho ... Continue reading---
