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The Problems And Prospect Of Reference Services In Academic Libraries
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Scope of the Study
This
study is restricted to the university of Anambra State Uli Campus
library. The reference services rendered to the users are deeply
discussed.
Reasonable conclusion and recommendation was made because
of limited time and space placed on this research, make it impossible to
evaluate in details everything about the problems and prospect of
Anambra State University reference library section. Only activities
performed in the library and the general overview of their statistical
record and their reference materials have been look into.
The quality of staff was also evaluated, the nature of their work and services towards their users.
Definition of terms
Reference
Services: According to Ala, (2008) reference service involves
reference activities that includes the creation, management and
assessment of information, research resources, tools and services.
Creation and management of information resources include the development
and maintenance of research collections, catalogues, research guides,
databases, web-sites, search engines etc.
So that patrons can use
independently to satisfy their information needs. Therefore reference is
sees to be an act of documenting important materials for future use
while services is the ability to make sure that reference section is
functioning effectively. It deals with provision of reference work by
library staff.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This project is aimed at examining the problems and prospects of reference services in academic librarians, using the Anambra State University Uli campus library as a case study and how to evaluate the strength and weakness of the reference services in an academic librarian. It will also help to know the problems caused by the library clientele and profile solution toward the problems. This project work is design to know the functions of reference librarian and services to make prospect in the r ... Continue reading---
