International Journal of Academic Library and Information Science
 

International Journal of Academic Library and Information Science

Vol. 2(9), pp. 130–137, October. 

ISSN: 2360-7858

DOI: 10.14662/IJALIS2014.035

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School Management Attitude as a Correlate of School Library Media Centre Service Delivery in Federal Government Colleges in Nigeria

Mr. Johnson Ayodeji AKERELE¹ and Prof.  David ELATUROTI²

¹College Library, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, Ondo State, Nigeria.

¹Corresponding author’s E-mail: oneadealbert@yahoo.com

²Abadina Media Resource Centre, University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

Accepted 20 October 2014

School Library Media Centre (SLMC) is a very important unit of the school which can help to achieve desirable educational goals. However, poor service delivery occasioned by negative attitude of school managers to SLMCs and School Library Media Specialists (SLMSs) has been a major setbacks militating against such realisation. The study, therefore, investigated the extent to which school management members attitude predict service delivery in SLMCs of Federal Government Colleges in Nigeria. The descriptive research design was adopted in the study. The multi-stage sampling was used to select 48 SLMCs from 16 federal government colleges in four out of the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria. The instrument used was: School Management Members Attitude and Service Delivery Questionnaire (r=0.77). School management members attitude (r=0.122), had a significant positive prediction on service delivery and they exhibited indifference attitude towards SLMCs and SLMSs (x ̅=2.27). School Management Members Attitude is a relevant factor that necessitates reasonable service delivery in SLMCs. Therefore school managers should always treat SLMSs as partners in progress, be well disposed to SLMCs activities and number of professionals in SLMCs should be increased.

Keywords: School library media centre, School management attitude and Service delivery
 

Cite This Article As: AKERELE JA, ELATUROTI D(2014). School Management Attitude as a Correlate of School Library Media Centre Service Delivery in Federal Government Colleges in Nigeria. Inter. J. Acad. Lib. Info. Sci. 2(9): 130-137.

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