ACQUISITION OF LIBRARY MATERIALS AND SERVICES TO USERS IN SPECIAL LIBRARIES IN CROSS RIVER STATE
Abstract
This study investigates the acquisition of library materials and services to users in special libraries
in Cross River State. Four hypotheses were formulated for the study and literature was reviewed
based on the variables of the study. The instrument used for data collection was Acquisition of
Library Materials and Services to Users in Special Library in Questionnaire (ALMSUSLQ). It was
constructed by the researcher; Cronbach reliability method was adopted in determining the
reliability of the instrument for the study. Out of the one and twenty-seven (127) questionnaires
distributed by the researcher for the study, only one hundred and twenty (120) questionnaires were
successfully retrieved from the respondents and seven (7) questionnaires were discovered to have
missed. Inferential statistics was employed to analyzed the data using statistical package for social
sciences (SPSS). The results of the analysis revealed that all the hypotheses were statistically
significant at .05 level. Based on the findings, it is concluded that that those saddle with the
responsibility of acquiring library materials get the best and contemporary materials that would
benefit the users in this special library in Calabar Municipality, Cross River State, Nigeria. It was
recommended that Replication of this study should be carried out in other local government areas
using different methods of data collections, similar study should also be conducted to include other
variables that were not used in the present study such as teachers’ characteristics, teachers’
background and teachers’ gender etc
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