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• W253828434 abstract "Use of the Library Catalog by Students at Ogun State University, Nigeria The ways in which students make use of the library catalog at Ogun State University, Nigeria, are examined. The extent of student use of the catalog is also assessed. Results indicate that 65 percent of the students make no use of the catalog. Reasons that students fail to make effective use of the catalog are offered. The Ogun State University Library was established in 1983. Though the university is relatively young, the university library has built up a collection of materials in all fields of human endeavor numbering more than 30,000 volumes. The university has its main library and the law library at its Ago-Iwoye campus. It also has two other branches, the Ijebu-Igbo annex library for arts and social management sciences and the medical library at Sagamu. Though each of the branch libraries has its own catalog, the catalog at the main library serves as a union catalog, since records of all materials are kept in the main library. The library often is called the heart or nerve center of a university, and a large amount of money is spent for purchasing books and other library materials. This expenditure is not justified, however, unless the library is fully utilized.[1] The full utilization of library materials is made possible through the use of the catalog, which saves the time of the library users. catalog is usually regarded as an essential key to the library's stock, it has been viewed by some people as a sacred cow. Grose and Line have referred to it as a white elephant.[2] Experts claim that the catalog should show what is available in the library, and where it is shelved, by providing an entry under every likely access point.[3] The extent of the use of library resources depends greatly upon the quality of the library catalog. As Kumar and Kumar put it, A comprehensive enhances the reputation of a library. On the other hand, an incomplete or poor mars the reputation [and] misguides not only users but also reference librarians.[4] Studies have been done in the use of the library catalog both in advanced and developing countries.[5,6] survey was carried out at Cochin University of Science and Technology on the use of the catalog, which revealed that 51 percent of the students who participated in the survey were not consulting the catalog at all.[7] Omoerha, writing on the use of the library catalog by the students of the University of Benin, stated that although the still represents the most reliable guide to the library's stock, there are strong indications that users prefer going straight to the shelves, when the author and title of a book are known.[8] He asserted further that the students seemed to prefer shelf browsing as a search strategy, and once they located a particular book at a point in the shelf they always went there whenever they needed that book or one on a similar subject.[9] Kumar and Kumar, writing on the progress in library cataloging, asserted that even today, we do not know enough as to how users use a catalogue and that studies in depth need to be carried out to determine the approach of users in various types of libraries.[10] The focus of this study was to determine how students make use of the library catalog at Ogun State University. The extent of their use of the catalogs also is assessed. Some reasons for the failure to make effective use of the catalog are offered. The Ogun State Study questionnaire was used to survey student catalog use. Respondents' names were not required to encourage them to give frank and accurate answers. Questionnaires were distributed at the circulation desk. Respondents were expected to fill out the questionnaires and return them to the circulation desk. In all, 250 questionnaires were distributed; 200 were returned, for an 80 percent response. …" @default.
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