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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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Significance of the study
The
findings of this study are expected to be of benefit to management and
staff of national library of Nigeria, the Federal government,
researchers, students, authors, lawyers, civil servants, publishers and
students of library and information science. The findings of this work,
if adopted may be of great benefit to the management of national library
of Nigeria if the causes of the lapses in acquisition and utilization
are revealed by correcting the errors especially in the area of legal
deposit .Publishers will be pursued more vigorously to comply .Authors
will be more enlightened about the benefits of depositing their
publications with the National library.If they deposit their titles will
be listed in the National Bibliography of Nigeria which is a good
selection tool ,their works will be standard because it will have
standard numbers for publications and so many other benefits For lawyers
,getting copies for evidence in court will no longer be an issue. It is
only National library that gives certified true copies of documents and
when they are not available it becomes a problem for the lawyers For
students and researchers they will always have available resources which
are readily available for their educational pursuits
Scope of the Study
The
scope of the study borders on the challenges of acquisition of library
materials and services to the users in law library in Ekiti State
University. The study find out the types of legal materials acquired and
selected at the faculty of law library it ascertained those involved in
the selection and acquisition of legal materials at the faculty of law
library. It will identify the tools used in the acquisition of legal
materials at the faculty of law library and present the problems
encountered in selection and acquisition of legal materials at the
faculty of law library. The study is however delimited to Law Library,
Law library librarian, dean faculty of law, law lecturers and other
library staff in Ekiti State University.
Limitation of the study
Like
in every human endeavour, the researchers encountered slight
constraints while carrying out the study. The significant constraint was
the scanty literature on the subject owing to the nature of the
discourse thus the researcher incurred more financial expenses and much
time was required in sourcing for the relevant materials, literature and
in the process of data collection, which is why the researcher resorted
to a limited choice of sample size. Additionally, the researcher will
simultaneously engage in this study with other academic work. More so,
the choice of the sample size was limited to Librarians and Law Library
Users in in Ekiti State University as few respondent were selected to
answer the research instrument hence findings of the study cannot be
generalize to other product. However, despite the constraint encountered
during the research, all factors were downplayed in other to give the
best and make the research successful.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]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 ... Continue reading---
