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Strategies For Effective Management Of College Library Resources
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CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Library resources are very important
in the libraries and also in the college libraries. It plays a very
vital role by provision information resources to this seeking
information. Resources are processed, acquired to make for easily
location, retrieval and use.
Pursuant to Nnadimele, 2005) a library
is a collection of records of human culture in print and non-print book
materials organized housed and interpreted by an information scientist
or librarian to meet the broad varying needs of people for information.
Pursuant
to (Omuiko,2004) college libraries are those libraries found in
polytechnic college of technology, college of education and college of
agriculture. The nature of information materials stored in line with the
nature of seeking. As it is in every library, this college library has
many unit with heads which manages those resources.
The resources are
acquired to satisfy the information needs of the library clientele and
to realize the parent institution goals. These resources are of two
types: prints and non-print materials.
Pursuant to (Obiora, 2004),
the print materials are the reference books text book, mimeographs,
monographs, these maps, conference, proceeding, journals and newspapers.
Non-print materials include slides, files microfiche, and utrafiche
etc.
These resources are managed in the library thus management
according to (Umunna, 2009), defined it as a team work, he further says
that management interprets the policy made by the administration.
Another scholar, (Onwubiko, 2004) sees management as the process of
planning, organizing, co-ordinating and controlling the effect of
organization and of using all other organization goals.
Therefore,
library resources has strategies for its effective management which are
planning, organizing, directing, staffing controlling and co0ordinating
not only that it involves taking care and preserving them against
damages of any kind, checking the human (i.e.) the library users to that
will not miss-manage vandalized these resources while using them.
Another
fantastic way is by financing these resources and also providing
visible services like photocopying, binding, reference services etc.
there are strategies for managing library resources these strategies are
cataloguing and classification abstracting and indexing shelving and
shelf-reading information repackaging and others.
For a while now,
there was problem of managing library resources in college libraries
this is because of inadequate qualified professional’s non-provision of
working tools. The reason for this study is to carryout survey on the
strategies for effective managing library resources at Alvan federal
college of education library Owerri, remedy would proffer to identify
problems.
1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEMS
Library staffs in A.I.F.C.F.
faces problem in their bid to manage their library resources such as
wrong cataloguing and classification, poor shelving and shelf-reading,
lack of working tools, lack of qualified professionals and others which
constitute problems to the management of A.I.F.C.E. library resources.
This
work means to check difficulties faces the management of A.I.F.C.E.
Resources and proffered solution to the identified problems.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study is on strategies for effective management of college library resources. The study is broken down under the following concepts college library resources, feature of college libraries, strategies for library resources management in college library and sustainable approach to library resources-management in college libraries. The process of data collection of the study was suided by eight objectives and research questions formulated for the study. The objectives of the study are to identi ... Continue reading---
