Title: Review of Factors Influencing Library Accreditation Performance of Federal University Libraries in Nigeria
Author(s): Daramola, Cecilia F.; Unegbu, Vincent E.; Alegbeleye, Gabriel B.; Babalola, Yemisi T.
Publication Year: 2022; Volume 17, Issue 1, pages 195-208

Library accreditation performance has to do with excellence, good or poor result by university libraries during library accreditation exercise. It is library accreditation performance results given against approved accreditation agency benchmarks. Library accreditation performance strongly determines university accreditation and as such, library accreditation performance is considered very key by the Nigerian University Commission (NUC). The library is expected to carefully follow the guidelines provided by the NUC which clearly captures important factors called indicators which determine the overall library accreditation performance. This work reviews the concept of library accreditation performance and its factors in Nigerian universities. The factors reviewed include library academic content, library staffing, library physical facilities, library internet connectivity, library books and other publications and library funds. This review concludes that, since the NUC has set down minimum requirements for library accreditation, importance should be given adequately to library academic content, library staffing, library physical facilities, library internet connectivity, library books and other publications and library funds for good library accreditation performance result.