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This study examined the influence of information-seeking behavior on library services used by the disabled in Federal universities in South-west, Nigeria. Survey research design was adopted for the study. The population comprises 302 disabled students in Federal universities in South-west, Nigeria. Total enumeration technique was used. A questionnaire was used for data collection. The instrument was tested for reliability, yielding Cronbach's alpha coefficients ranging from 0.74 to 0.75. Descriptive and Inferential Statistics were used to analyze the data. The findings revealed that advisory, carrel and consultancy services were the most available services. The most used services were user education services and consultancy services. The respondents' information-seeking behavior mostly involves seeking information on health and retrieving information from the e-library. The study concluded that information-seeking behavior influenced the use of library services of disabled students. The study recommended that library management must provide more resources on healthrelated subjects, especially in electronic form. Finally, the management should improve their current awareness services tailored to the needs of disabled students and library staff should be trained on how to serve every library user irrespective of their challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of the library is to provide quality service and lifelong learning facilities to its users. However, there are indications of low level of effectiveness in many polytechnic libraries. Studies revealed that this could be attributed to leadership style, work environment and organisational silence. The study, therefore, investigated the extent to which the independent variables influenced institutional effectiveness of polytechnic libraries in South-West, Nigeria. The research adopted survey research design. The population consisted of 429 library personnel from the 32 polytechnic libraries in South-West, Nigeria. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 24 (75%) polytechnic libraries. Total enumeration was used for the 368 personnel. The Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficients ranged from.81 to.95. The return rate was 86.96%. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings revealed that there was a combined positive and significant influence of leadership style, work environment and organisational silence on institutional effectiveness. Furthermore, the level of institutional effectiveness was low; leadership style predominately practiced was transactional closely followed by transformational leadership style. The work environment of employees was found to be unconducive. Organisational silence was at a low degree in the Polytechnics. In conclusion, leadership style, work environment and organizational silence were major factors contributing to low level of institutional effectiveness. Study recommended that heads of libraries should practise more of transformational leadership style and create a conducive work environment. Heads of libraries need to ensure that opinions and ideas of employees are considered so that institutional effectiveness could be increased. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines interlibrary loan cooperation among six selected academic libraries in Kwara State, Nigeria. The study adopts a survey design with a sample size of one hundred (100) librarians and library officers selected from among academic libraries in Kwara State. Data were collected through a self-designed questionnaire and collected data were analyzed using frequency counts and percentages. The findings reveal that books and journals are the materials mostly available for interlibrary loan in all the participating academic libraries, and that the requesting and delivery methods used are emails, personal contact, Facebook and Twitter. The findings also show that inadequate funds, obsolescence of equipment for assessing digital information, and lack of documented policy on interlibrary loan are challenges facing the provision of interlibrary loans in academic libraries in the state. However, it is suggested that, if libraries begin to appreciate the usefulness of interlibrary loan services, then this will enable them to forge ahead toward satisfying their clienteles' information needs. To overcome the challenges facing interlibrary loan, it is recommended that proper planning, adequate funding, capacity building, and formulation of policy guiding interlibrary loan should be considered and instituted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study compares the utilization by adolescents age 12–17 of public libraries in Osun and Oyo States in Nigeria. The study utilized interviews and a checklist as data-gathering techniques. Some 414 volunteer adolescent users were selected, with males predominating. Of the respondents, 51.7 percent were in the libraries to read their own books. Of the respondents from Oyo State Public Library, 99 percent were aware of library Internet services compared to only 22 percent from Osun State. Users specified two major problems: no good display of library materials and lack of up-to-date materials on subjects in which students were interested. The authors suggest several policy changes to improve adolescent services in the two libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In Nigeria, a growing number of people own a mobile phone. In tertiary institutions most undergraduates and lecturers own a mobile phone and it is now used to show one's status in the community. In certain places, such as the library, where absolute silence is needed, some library users misuse mobile phone and thus they constitute a source of disturbance to other library users. This paper is a study conducted to show it and solutions are proffered on how to combat this menace in the library. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]