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Dissertation Information for Doris Uku Oritsewenyimi Bozimo

NAME:
- Doris Uku Oritsewenyimi Bozimo

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- Columbia University (USA) (1979)

ADVISORS:
- Phyllis Dain
- Jane Stevens

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Susan Otis Thompson
- Ellis Mount
- Richard L. Darling
- Elizabeth Nebehay

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: COOPERATION AMONG UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES IN NIGERIA--PROBLEMS, PERSPECTIVES, PROSPECTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR NATIONAL PLANNING

Abstract: This study sought to examine the nature and extent of cooperative activities among Nigerian university libraries within the context of the historical and the educational settings. It also attempted to evaluate the role of organizations and institutions which had fostered and effected cooperative activities as well as analyze the expressed needs of the primary users of the university libraries: the academic staff members. The study also provided a description of the characteristics of the major activity of cooperation among the libraries--inter-library loan--and investigated the attitudes towards cooperation of librarians and academic staff members who were in a position to influence policy decisions concerning cooperation.

Considerable reliance was placed on documentary data to provide background material on the settings for Nigerian academic libraries. Questionnaires were designed for academic staff in selected departments in the universities in order to ascertain the pattern of their expressed needs. Attitude scales were prepared for professional librarians and academic staff in these institutions to probe their dispositions to certain forms of cooperation and methods of implementing them.

The results of the study showed that the political and educational settings within which the universities and their libraries evolved furnished a background unfavorable to cooperative efforts; that the organizations and institutions which had fostered cooperative endeavours were generally unable to execute cooperative goals because of some of these factors: the physical and environmental obstacles of the larger society; the personality conflicts amongst some of the major protagonists of cooperation; problems of vertical and horizontal communication within the cooperating institutions and the difficulties which the leaders of university library cooperation had faced in selling their projects to higher authorities.

The results also showed that journals were the single most important materials for which academics have the greatest need, that the dominant language of requested items was English and that an overwhelming majority of requests was for material in the form of photocopies published after 1960.

Generally, academics felt that their libraries were inadequate for research as well as teaching. Foreign libraries and suppliers were perceived as the source of most urgently needed items and they judged that slightly less than half of requested items took more than one year to arrive after being requested.

Academics, as a group, were generally more favorably disposed to cooperation than librarians who were more aware of the tactical problems involved in implementing certain cooperative schemes. Librarians were emphatically against the idea of centralized acquisitions and processing, given the state of technology and telecommunications within the country.

The implications of the findings point to the necessity for a comprehensive national union list of periodical holdings at the national level. The observation of academic staff concerning the inadequacy of their libraries for research and teaching points to the need for developing coordinated schemes for acquisition based on subject and geographical areas in which each institution is known to have bibliographic strength. The poor telecommunication facilities in Nigeria underscores the need for developing efficient and reliable courier services for carrying mails and inter-library loan requests among the various libraries. Cooperative activities should revolve around certain designated universities as regional centres before coordination is assumed at the national level.


MPACT Scores for Doris Uku Oritsewenyimi Bozimo

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calculated 2008-01-31 06:01:53

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