ATTITUDE OF STAFF AND STUDENTS OF NASARAWA STATE UNIVERSITY, KEFFI ON THE AWARENESS, AVAILABILITY AND UTILISATION OF LIBRARY INFORMATION RESOURCES

This study was on the availability, awareness and utilisation of information resources by staff and students of the Nasarawa State University, Keffi (NSUK). It identify the types of information resources available in the Nasarawa State University, Keffi (NSUK) Library, establish if staff and students are aware of available resources in the Nasarawa State University, Keffi  (NSUK) Library and examine the types of information resource utilise by staff and students of Nasarawa State University, Keffi (NSUK) Library. Three research questions guided the study. The instrument used for data collection was a researcher self-developed observation checklist. The instrument was used to identify the availability of information resources in the library while the other was used to solicit information on users’ awareness and utilisation of the library resource. The study uses the descriptive survey with a population of 2181. The sample size of 436 was drawn using a simple 20% of the entire population. Data was analysed using simple percentage. From the finding it can be seen that the library has some information resources which can support teaching, learning and research as is obtainable in academic environments. The available resources include reference materials (Dictionaries, encyclopedias and others), textbooks, curriculum-based text, journals, newspapers, online catalogue, online data bases among others. On the other hand, awareness of available information resources by users, result revealed that users are aware of some available information resources in the library. Result also shows that the users (Staff and Students) utilise some of the available information resources. It was concluded that, the library have some useful information resources, that user are aware of some of the available resources and in the same vain utilises them. Finding also shows that users are not aware of some resources available in the library. Based on the findings of this study, it was recommended that; library should acquire more information resources especially ICT based ones, information access policies should be adjusted for more openness and the NSUK library should make deliberate efforts to make users aware of available information resource to encourage utilisation of available information resources.