|
ISSN: 2360-7858 |
International
Journal of Academic Library and Information Science |
||||||||||||||||||
|
Vol. 8(8), pp. 252–260. September, 2020. ISSN: 2360-7858 DOI: 10.14662/IJALIS2020.255
Research paper
Reading culture among students in selected secondary schools in Lagos State, Nigeria
1Odusina, Emmanuel Sunday and 2Oloniruha, Emmanuel Adeniyi. CLN
1,2 Centre for Learning Resources, Redeemer’s College of Technology and Management, Redemption Camp, Mowe, Ogun State. Nigeria. Corresponding author’s 1E-mail: Sunday_odusina@yahoo.com. 2E-mail: kingemmaa2000@gmail.com
Accepted 27 September 2020
The paper investigated the reading culture among students in selected secondary schools in Lagos State. The paper is a survey research and questionnaire. Eight schools were purposively selected from Agege Local Government Area of Lagos state. The population of the study is 939 secondary schools students from the study. Sample size for the study was 10% which has earlier been used in a similar study. The findings of the study revealed that majority of the students patronize the library to enhance knowledge and examination preparation. The study recommended that the school authorities should employ qualified school librarians to be in charge of the school libraries. Government should equip the existing school libraries with good, up-to-date, and sufficient library resources that are rich in quality, quantity and that can be varied to reflect the school curriculum at every point in time. Also, ministry of Education should introduce library study or period into the school curriculum. Local governments should promote reading through youth-based organisations such as: Press and Reading clubs.
Keyword: Reading culture, school library, students, secondary schools, Lagos State
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||
