Vol. 10(8), pp. 318--338 October, 2022. 

ISSN: 2360-7858

https://doi.org/10.14662/ijalis2022370

 

Full Length Research

 

Abstract

The study seeks to find out the role of library instruction. It is limited to the federal university of technology, Minna with undergraduate student as its target response. The study was anchored by five objectives which are; to find out if students use the library at all; to find out the extent of the use of the library; to find out whether there are instructions on how to use the library; to find out the types of library instructions available; to find out the challenges users face in using the library. The descriptive design called correlation was adopted and questionnaires was used as instrument for data collection. A sampling fraction of 1.8% was used to select 376 undergraduate from the total (20,880) using simple random sample techniques. One hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance and data was presented in frequency, tables, percentages and mean. The hypothesis was analyzed using PPMC method. The research finding reveals inadequacy in the library use, lack of knowledge on the use of the library, absence of library instruction to educate the user on the use of library and it resources. The study recommended that the library should adopt more library instruction methods to educate the users; the library should also employ more professional staff that will offer library instructions adequately and the library should orient her staff on being user-friendly in their approach to the users who seek to use the library.

 

Keywords: Library Instructions, Academic libraries, Library Services, Library Use.

 

	Cite This Article As: Oshie, S.F., Agbai, A. I.(2022). The Role of Library Instructions on the Use of the Library: Case Study of Federal University of Technology, Minna. Inter. J. Acad. Lib. Info. Sci. 10(8): 318-338