Readiness of Academic Librarians to Form Sustainable Partnership Activities among the Federal Universities Libraries in Nigeria

Abstract

The study investigated the readiness of academic librarians for sustainable partnership activities among the federal universities libraries in Nigeria. A cross-sectional survey design was used, and the study was carried out in the Forty (40) federal universities in Nigeria. Considering the complexity of the population, the federal universities were divided into strata according to six (6) geopolitical zones, and a stratified sampling technique was applied, and 50% were selected from each stratum as a sample. This gave a total population of 18 federal universities, and the (18) federal universities have a total of 480 academic librarians, which serve as a primary population of the study. The instrument used for the data collection was a questionnaire administered, and 433 were returned and found usable for the study. A draft copy of the questionnaire was given to an expert for scrutiny to determine the instrument's validity. The Data collected were coded into Microsoft excel, Statistical Packages of Social Science (SPSS), descriptive statistics of percentage, mean score, and standard deviation to analyze the data collected from the respondents. The findings revealed thatThe academic librarians, as a required qualification to work at federal universities, that have enough working experiences, their level of computer literacy was very encouraging, and they are ready to form sustainable partnership activities. The study recommended thatthere should be training and retraining among the librarians for the modern technique of forming partnership activities, the federal university libraries and their academic librarians should offer rewards and incentives to encourage them to maintain their readiness towards forming sustainable partnership activities, and there should be proper budgetary allocation and implementation in the libraries.