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The Challenges Of Acquisition Of Library Materials And Services To The Users In Law Library In Ekiti State University
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The objective of this study is to examine the challenges of acquisition of library materials and services to the users in law library in Ekiti State University. Survey research design was employed for the study and with aid of convenient sampling selected forty-one(41) participant who are Law library librarian, dean faculty of law, law lecturers and other library staff in Ekiti State University as the sample size for this study. The sources of data collection was both primary and secondary with the application of questionnaires as an instrument to gather the necessary data. Textbooks, journals, articles, law reports, newspapers publications, were collected as secondary data, and also limitations to the study were indicated. The questionnaires were administered to the 41 participant of which 35 responses were retrieved validated and this was a basis by which the primary data were collected. Data was analyzed using mean and standard deviation as presented in frequencies and tables. Findings of the study problems militating against effective selection and acquisition of legal materials of Ekiti University Faculty of Law library such as, lack of funds, absence/poor implementation of collection development policy, lack of capacity building for library staff, lack of technical capabilities in the areas of online databases and electronic resources, high cost of legal materials and lack of bibliographic control of published legal sources. The study therefore concludes that The law library should develop acquisitions policy, in other words collection development policy, to guide them in the selection and acquisition of legal materials. More, so, the government and parent institutions should provide enough funds to the law library to enable it carryout the acquisition process effectively.
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CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]Statement of the problemThe present economic dislocation that is
ravaging the entire world is also affecting the academic libraries in
developing countries, According to Anunobi, (2012) the key challenges
affecting the acquisitions of materials in academic libraries include:
inadequate funding, economic dislocations, dearth of current books, due
process, lack of current acquisition tools. Agyen-Gyasi et al. (2010)
further indicate that special libraries in Nigeria Universities face
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CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]Statement of the problemThe present economic dislocation that is
ravaging the entire world is also affecting the academic libraries in
developing countries, According to Anunobi, (2012) the key challenges
affecting the acquisitions of materials in academic libraries include:
inadequate funding, economic dislocations, dearth of current books, due
process, lack of current acquisition tools. Agyen-Gyasi et al. (2010)
further indicate that special libraries in Nigeria Universities face
... Continue reading---
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