A SURVEY OF LIBRARY RESOURCES FOR STORY-HOUR PROGRAMMES IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN ANAMBRA STATE

  • Cynthia Nkiru Okey-Okafor Department of Library and Information Science, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka
  • Anthonia Ukamaka Echedom Department of Library and Information Science, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka
Keywords: Library Resources, Children Librarian, Public Libraries, Children Story-hour Programme, Anambra State

Abstract

This study is a survey of library resources for story-hour programmes in public libraries in Anambra State. Two research questions guided the study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The entire population was used for the study. Population of the study comprised children’s’ department of the 11 public libraries in Anambra State. This is a combination of professional and non professional staff of the library as well as the information resources owned by the children’s section of the eleven public libraries in Anambra State.   Two validated instruments; observation checklists and structured interviews were used to generate data for the study.The findings of the study showed that there are three categories of personnel employed to coordinate story-hour programmes in public libraries in Anambra State with few professional children’s librarians among them. Most public libraries in Anambra State do not employ professional children’s librarians to coordinate story-hour programmes in their public libraries. The findings also revealed that there are print information resources for effective story-hour programmes in the public libraries. However, they are not used the story-hour programmes are not observed in most of the public libraries. The study also found that there are no audio-visual information resources in the public libraries. Based on the findings, it was recommended that more professional children’s librarians should be employed to coordinate the story-hour programmes. It was also recommended that the use of audio-visual information resources should be adopted in the story -hour programmes to make it more interesting and effective.

Published
2022-03-30