UTILIZATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARY RESOURCES IN TEACHING IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN OBIO-AKPOR L

📄 Project Abstract

The study is a survey of utilization of school library resources in teaching in secondary schools in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. To achieve this five(5) research questions were formulated. Four hundred and ten (410) teachers were used as sample out of eight hundred and twenty (820) that forms the population of the study from the fourteen secondary schools in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. Questionnaires and observation checklist were used to collect data. Tables, percentages and mean were used for data analysis. It was found that most of the relevant materials were not available in all the schools. Some problems such as lack of convenient accommodation, lack of funds, lack of reading tables and chairs, non-involvement of library staff in collection development, lack of qualified librarians were among the problems of these libraries. The major recommendations are: that there is need to increase full allocation of the school libraries, the state b...