Users’ Participation in Acquisition and Users’ Satisfaction with the Information Resources in University Libraries in the South-South Zone of Nigeria
Keywords:
University library, Information Resources, Users SatisfactionAbstract
The study was conducted to determine the influence of users’ participation
in the acquisition process on users’ satisfaction with information
resources in university libraries in South-South zone of Nigeria. The
study adopted the survey research method. The population of this study
consists of all university library staff and lecturers in government-owned
university in the South South zone of Nigeria during the 2012/2013
academic session. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to select a
sample of 36 library staff and 4627 lecturers from 6 of the universities in
the zone. A structured questionnaire entitled: Users’ Participation in the
Acquisition Process and Users’ Satisfaction with Information Resources
(UPAPUSIRQ), was used to collect data. Means and standard deviation
were used to analyse the data collected for the study while the hypothesis
was tested using t-test in IBM SPSS for Window version 20 at p = 0.05
level of significance. The findings reveal among other things that there
was significant influence of Users’ participation in the acquisition
process on users’ satisfaction with information resources. It is therefore
recommended that librarians should take cognizance of the factor of
users’ participation in the acquisition process when acquiring
information resources for the libraries.
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