Title: Enhanced Strategies to Utilization of Online Information Resources for Effective Services Delivery by Public University Librarians in South-East Nigeria
Author(s): Edward C. R. Amadi, Adaeze Jude- Iwuoha & Nnenna Chioma Samuel
Publication Year: 2023; Volume 18, Issue 3, pages 19-29

This study investigated the public university librarians' enhanced strategies to the utilization of online information resources (OIR) for effective services delivery in public university libraries in South-East, Nigeria. To guide the study, one objective, and one research question were used. A hypothesis was formulated for the study and tested at 0.05 level of significant. Descriptive survey was adopted for the study. The population of the study was 174 professional public university librarians. Total census was used for the study hence there was no sampling. The instrument of data collection was questionnaire. Validated copies of the questionnaire were tested for reliability using Cronbach Alpha, and the reliability coefficient obtained was high enough (0.94) confirming its reliability. The 174 copies of questionnaire were administered to the respondents through the help of research assistants one from each state of the South-East. 157 were returned representing 90% return rate. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics of mean frequency count and standard deviation. The mean was used for answering the research question while inferential statistics of t-test was used for testing the hypothesis. The result showed the grand mean at 3.46 level of acceptance by the respondents and agreeing conclusively that the public university librarians' utilization of enhanced strategies in online information resources for effective services delivery in public university libraries is potent and accepted in South-East, Nigeria. Hence the study recommends that university librarians should aptly direct for the utilization of enhanced strategies for OIR utilization for effective services delivery accordingly.