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Survey Of Motivation In Government Libraries
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Motivation could be seen as that within
the individual which his behaviours. One can therefore, say that
motivation is the drive that ignites and energies the individual at work
to act the way he does in any work group.
A motivated worker
especially in government libraries is expected to feel contented and
happy, and would perform his assigned work willingly and
enthusiastically. Staff motivation could be seen as that means of
gingering up workers to perform well in discharging their duties.
Staffing
has been the main problem facing government libraries in Nigeria. In
addition to undertstaffing in terms of numerical strength, most
government libraries in the country have no qualified staff; Shair
Ogusheye, Oguara, Moglim and a host of other highlighted this lack of
qualified librarians in government libraries.
However, the situation
has not remained static, some improvements have been made, while
Ogusheye found only twelve professional libraries among the thirteen
government libraries. She studied in 1970, only seventy-five percent of
libraries surveyed by Oguara in 1995 have professional librarians.
Despite
the improvement, a good number of government libraries are without
professional librarians, this is due to the attitude of management of
parent organization towards the library.
STAFF MOTIVATION FACTORS
An
organization is said to have good management if it is not only able to
top the maximum potentials from its employees but also able to produce a
favourable comparative amount of job satisfaction for the employees.
The
motivational factors includes; good salary, good working environment,
free medicare, job security, good carree benefit, good retirement
benefit, subsidies of meal, housing allowance, a good sense of belonging
and responsibilities as we as welfare and staff developments through
seminars, conferences and framing e.t.c
It is undoubtedly believe
that the qualification and efficiency of output by any organization is
determined by the caliber of manpower or human resources are some of the
cardinal factors of production. And in view of the topic under study
the efficiency of human resources management stems from the adequate
definition of government librarianship and its services.
Both staff
and the organization to which he belong have mutual expectations and
desirable benefits. The full attainment of any organizational goal is
only made possible through the satisfaction of the needs and desires and
of member of that organization .
THE CONCEPT OF GOVERNMENT LIBRARIES
According to a definition by the government libraries attached to government institution.
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UNESCO PUBLICATION DEFINES GOVERNMENT Libraries as libraries primarily
designed to serve a limited number of experts, scientist, research
workers e.t.c ; and not coming within ang categories like national,
university and school libraries. Their holdings are specific and relate
to some particular subject coverage; for instance, agriculture,
medicine, law history, economic e.t.c, these libraries may be attached
to various bodies such as parliament, government
Department e.t.c
Here
handy (2000) clearly acknowledge the nature of the job of a special
librarian as that of exploiter of information. This shows the main job
of government libraries in informant services rather than documentation
or duty delivery. Government libraries enable professionals and
researchers to keep abreast of available research and information
relevant to their organization.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study presents the views of eighteen (18) staff of ministries of Education and information libraries on the availability of staff motivation in government libraries and the extent, usefulness of the motivation techniques to the staff.Eighteen questionnaires were distributed to the sample population and were fully filled and returned.The findings were presented in a tabular form and percentages were used in analysis them from the data collection and analyzed it was observed that there are in ... Continue reading---
