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Availability And Use Of Library Resources In Training Libraries By Students
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FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC AND THE DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY / INFORMATION SCIENCE: HISTORICAL BRIEF
Imo
state Edict-No. 16 of April 1976 established the Federal Polytechnic
Nekede Owerri. Among other things, the edict empowered the polytechnic
to erect, provide equipment and maintain a library.
In response to
this, a chief librarian was appointed on March 1978. By the time the
polytechnic open on the 5th of December 1978, a clerk typist and a
messenger had been appointed to assist the chief librarian. By the time
the polytechnic was till operating at a temporary site at the government
technical college Owerri. It was exactly on this date that the library
started operating with an initial collection of 300 volumes including
serial titles, newspapers, periodicals etc. which were organized and
consulted by users in a separate segment of the library.
The
polytechnic move to its permanent site in Nekede in November 1980, with
the library occupying one room in the engineering block with a separate
partition for serials in January 1983, the library moved to the
classroom complex where it occupied more rooms.
Today, the
polytechnic purpose built a befitting academic library which occupies a
two storey building was constructed under the regime of the former
rector Dr. C. I. Osuoji and was completed.
The polytechnic new
college library was commissioned on Saturday May 19, 2001. By Prof. A.
B. Borishade and opened to the members of the polytechnic Nekede (staff
and students) in January 2002.
HISTORICAL BRIEF OF THE DEPARATMENTAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
The
department of library and information science, college of technology
now federal polytechnic, Nekede (hereafter referred to as Nekede Library
school) is the older of the two library schools in a critically complex
occupation as the most efficient way to transmit t he tricks and
concept of the work to beginners. This association partly accounts for
the establishment of library schools in different places. However, while
educators and institutions in other parts of Nigeria were literally
re-inventing the wheel by concentrating on University-based library
school.
From Ikpa-Iroh’s (2006) account, this library school was
established in 1979 at the then college of technology Nekede at the
outskirt of Owerri, the capital of Imo state. However the first set of
students was admitted in the year 1980 / 1981 academic session. In the
same academic session, Okpa-Iroha (1980/81), unarguably the father of
polytechnic based library education in Nigeria made a formal application
for polytechnic in the country to offer library science at National
Diploma and Higher National Diploma levels. The details of his
submission to the national Board for Technical Education (NBTE) titled: A
case for running of library and information science programmes in the
polytechnic system of Education in Nigeria. The uniqueness of the Nekede
library school was captured by Ngoha (1984) who described it fittingly
as the first one to be established outside the aegis of a university. It
is therefore an undesirable historical fact that while the lending
lights in Nigeria library practice and education were engrossed in a
heated debate about the issue of library leaders education and the
superiority of the programmes of existing library school, the
authorities of the college of technology in Imo state provided the
resources, facilities and personnel required to put the suitability and
practicability of a non-university-based library school to test. This
singular decision, which has radically attend the course of library
education in Nigeria for the better is not worthy and commendable.
As
focused trailblazers, the promoters of the Nekede library school were
conscious of the scepticism that trailed their new experiment in
polytechnic based library education. Elder Okpa-Iroha, ably supported by
his faculty colleagues and management of college of Technology, Nekede
design a further two years Higher National Diploma (HND) in library
science. Graduates of the National Diploma (ND) are eligible to enrol
into the H N D programmes after a mandatory 12 months interlude of
internship in libraries or allied information institutions. This maiden
ND and HND programmes in library science were accredited in the 1985/86
academic session following successful defences of the proposal before
the NBTE and other relevant authorities.
The opportunities for the
acquisition of library education in Imo State was widened further in
1990/2000 academic session. When the Nekede library school introduced a 1
year pre-national diploma in library and information science.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study carried out on availability and use of library resources in training libraries by students, using department of library and information science training library as a case study.The objective of this research work is to find out the extent of availability and use of library resources by students of library and information science.The sample population is 100 which is represented 5% of the total population under study. Questionnaire and interview schedule were used as data collection in ... Continue reading---
