Examination of the Resources Utilization in School Library by the Students in Government Girls Secondary School Library Kontagora, Niger State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study examined the resources utilization in Government Girls’ Secondary School Kontagora, Niger State. Three (3) research questions were used to guide the study: What types of library resources are available for students to uses in the school library of Government Girls Secondary School Kontagora? What are the purposes/reasons the students use the school library? What are the constraints to the effective utilization of the school library resources? The populations of this study consisted of eighty (80) students of SS1 and SS2. Census sample was adopted because the population was small. Survey research designed was used for the study. The questionnaire was used as an instrument for data collection, and frequency count and percentage distribution was used to analyze the data collected. The study showed that there are many information resources such as texts books, journals, dictionaries, encyclopedia, globes and atlas, charts and graphs and newspapers in the school library of GGSS Kontagora. The finding also revealed that secondary school students used the library in preparation for the examination and reading newspapers for leisure. The results furthered revealed that there are many constraints to the effective utilization of library resources in government girls’ secondary school Kontagora which include inadequate funding, lack of power supply. Others are lack of official library hour on the time table, lack of professional staff, lack of relevant materials and mutilation of library resources which are negatively affecting the library services. The study recommended that school management should improve on the library resources; students should be encouraged by the school management to use the library other than reading only in preparation for the examination.