MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION RESOURCES AND SERVICES OF STATE UNIVERSITY, LIBRARY MUSA MUHAMMED, Assistant Librarian, Skyline University, KABIRU GARBA DANLADI, Head Librarian, Skyline University Nigeria BUFFA ATTAHIRU MAGAJI, Senior Librarian, Federal College of Education, Kano, Nigeria

Abstract Management of information resources and services is a vital asset towards the effectiveness and efficiency of any library. The paper sought to investigate the status of the management of university library, the study was qualitative in nature as interview method was used for the study. The university librarian was interviewed as a respondent in getting the needed and vital information for the study. The findings revealed that the library is managed through two committees: The Library Management Committee (LMC) and Library board (LB). The university still have a long way to go in respect to the management of resources and services of the library. Poor funding, shortage of junior staff, theft and mutilation, internet connectivity, interrupted power supply and lack of orientation to the university community. The study recommends the development, overhauling and the adapting of new management strategies to manage the information resources and services of the library. Also, the provision of standby generator to help in the delivery of services to the university library. The library should employ more supporting staffs because of the services it renders. From the study, it was shown that the library has more senior staffs, and that is why the services of the library are not carried out effectively. The library should maintain the present organization of information resources with the Library of Congress Classification Scheme (LCC) because it gives room for future enhancement. Keyword: Library Management, Information Resources, Library Services and Staffing

Background of the Study Kaduna state university was established in the year 2004 in the month of May under the law made by the state government. The university was promulgated as the need arise to boost the state higher education sector to not just the northern but also to southern part of Kaduna. Two campuses were approved that are from the section of Kaduna central and the other campus at Kafanchan (Sa'eed, 2015). At first, the main campus at Kaduna starts its degree programmes, with the then state Governor Dr. Ahmed Muhammad Makarfi as the chief guest of honor. The appointment of the Professor Idris Abdulkadir as the university Pro-Chancellor as well the chairman Governing Council was made. Then also Professor Abubakar Sani Sambo been appointed as the University First Vice- Chancellor. In addition to that, Aminu S. Mikailu was the one that took it from where Professor Sambo stopped as the new Vice-Chancellor to the University and subsequently he was appointed as the head of Nigerian Energy Commission (Sa'eed, 2015). Professor E.M. Abdurrahman making him as the third Vice-Chancellor. The next comes Professor W. B. Quirix. By the year 2004 the University of Kaduna State come into being as it was partially established and is now having seven faculties namely below; ▪ Kaduna State University Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. ▪ Kaduna State University Faculty of Science. ▪ Kaduna State University Faculty of Social & Management Science. ▪ Kaduna State University Faculty of Agriculture. ▪ Kaduna State University Faculty of Arts the State University. ▪ Kaduna State University Faculty of Environmental Sciences. ▪ Kaduna State University Faculty of (Sa'eed, 2015).

Introduction The primary purpose to which the University of Kaduna State Library (KASU) is aimed for supporting, learning research as well means of teaching, in the University in a manner to add and put up to the consistent and supporting of the University vision, mission and goals of the institution. In addition, the University library services and resources should be in sufficient and quality enough to meet the user’s needs and demands and to cover all the areas in the university curriculum (Aina, 2004). The amount of library resources and services should be made available all the time at appropriate time with the level for the degree appropriate available in supporting the cultural, technical and intellectual development of the student enrolled in the University. Academics libraries offers wide range of services and resources to support the teaching and the research needs of it staffs, student and faculty member’s (Rosa, 2016). Today academic libraries are searching round to the creative ways in encouraging it student by providing the most needed resources to meet users demand by providing the digital services as well the digital resources to meet the requirements to it users (Ngozi, 2003). Resources like e-books, journal, books, Magazines, Government publications, indexes and abstracts are the most common resources found in Academic libraries that are been utilized. Universities are at the very vanguard of providing the basic necessities to the needed information resources and information services to its different users, the management of resources and services is paramount on Academic Libraries and also to Kaduna state University (Eze & Uzoigwe, 2013). Generally, Academic library management is of the direction en route for getting the attainment of the real objectives of institutions. The academic library management involve a series of activities, Functions and processes these statement includes information about collection development, cataloging, classification, automation, and indexing of information resources and services.

Research Objectives 1. Identifying types of information resources used in Kaduna State University Library. 2. To examine how the collections are being managed in terms of acquisition, organization and storage / preservation. 3. To examine the services provided by the library. 4. To assess the level of staffing in the library in term of Size, Qualifications and Skills.

Research Questions 1. What types of Information Resource are available in Kaduna state University library? 2. How are these collections managed in terms of Acquisition, Organization, Storage / preservation? 3. What kind of services are offered by the Library? 4. What is the Level off staffing in the library in terms of size, Qualification and Skills?

Methodology Methodology defines the activities of researcher which include the steps involve in conducting the research, how to proceed and measure progress, the method use for data collection either scientific deduction and inductive thinking and skill of research in the age of information (Kumar R. , 2011).

Interview – It is widely form of means of collecting both quantitative and qualitative data, this techniques demands skills from the interviewer because it provide a firsthand information directly from the informant (Mohammad, 2013). The interviewer of the study have to take part by determining the social environment or situation in which the interview proceeds in asking queries or giving further incitements in order to produce the needed information from the respondent that is presently interviewed (Lawal S. , 2013). As such, Scheduled Interview was conducted with the Acting University librarian in person of Mrs. Esther Gani, on the 9th January, 2016. the interview that was conducted with the Acting University librarian consists of ten (10) questions. This helps the researcher get first-hand information.

Literature Review Concept of Library Management Management as the wide-ranging activity which is characterized by keeping every human effort that flows in almost every organization, and to whatever it diverse nature it requires a well-organized management that will function effectively as well efficiently (Asiye, 2012). In the administration of any library life in an organization to function very well there must be a well-planned and tested management practice and principle. Library Management is a sub discipline institutional management that focuses on library, it includes normal management as well as self- determination of library activities and fundraising with recruitment of staff and proper budgeting of library. Library management as liberal initiative although most of the activities may look like an administrator for the entire library (Asiye, 2012). Library management always involves some important functions such as planning, budgeting, staffing, as well as organizing, then comes leading, and finally controlling. The initial as the planning to which it is fundamentally more about the way to systematically make decisions with regards to library goals. Then when it comes to organizing it is solely about assembling and as well coordinating human, the financial aspect, the physical, with the informational, and some other needed resources that will help in achieving the goals of the library (Dhawan, 2016).

The management of collection in the library therefore may be including selection, organization, acquisition, as well storage and the dissemination of the relevant information resources to the users Management in library is fundamental because proper management make resources and activities in library to be well control and look in to. Library management and skills come through post-Masters in library and information science (MLIS), continuing education (CE) opportunities. This type of education is typically offered by professional library associations such as the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA) and occurs at the local, state, and national level. Topics covered in this type of span and the range of management sub-specialties including leadership, communication, project management, budgeting, supervising, and planning. Delivery methods for these courses range from webinars, to single day face-to-face workshops, to multi-day institutes (Miriam, Matteson, & Allen, 2015).

Information Resources in Academic The word “Resources” is been define differently by various discipline, in the area of library and information science centers is seen as the integrating of document, eBooks, e-journals, databases, and multimedia materials (Ekere, Omekwu, & Nwoha Chindinma M, 2016). Today library resource are been digitized which refers to the converting of information resources from other format to digitized format changing information resources in library has enhance library activities. Users of library can now freely access resources of any information centers from any ware (Ekere, Omekwu, & Nwoha Chindinma M, 2016). Information resource or library resources are the material that are found in library which consist of various things such as, material, financial and human resources. Information resources are very important to library and any organization (Aina, 2004). While describing information carries stress that they come in different forms and format in Libraries the format such as compact disc, maps, and serials to him he posits that any bearing information which is relevant to users of library is information carriers (Aina, 2004). The quantity and quality of information carriers of any Library is fundamental to the survival of a library. The core and function of information is to adequately equip the information seekers to make right decisions among the alternative choices. For information to be valuable and meaningful, it should be accurate, timely, relevant, reliable, verifiable, understandable and complete. Any item of information that meets these characteristics will surely be an asset to Nigeria to help them in the process of decision making as policy formulators and implementers (Aina, 2004).

Adequate utilization of information resources enhances job performance of librarian by given needed resources to the teeming users.. This means that utilization of library resources by student of Nigeria University will be for purpose of enhancing their academic pursuit either through in-depth research; recreational reading; need for awareness; solutions to official and personal problem, need for training and retraining programs of institution in the country (Buhari, 2016). He went further in saying Library resources could be utilize to enhance student performance this include resources as that information bearing materials that are in both electronic and printed formats such as, journals, indexes, CDROM, textbooks, newspapers-magazines, diskettes, reports, abstracts, databases, videotapes/cassettes, magnetic disk, computers, microforms and Internet/E-mail (Buhari, 2016).

The advent of Internet access in the academic libraries which facilitates speedy and easy access to unlimited information from different sources has clearly helped to transform the level of access by users. The Internet is an information resources which brings a lot of wide range of materials resources from around the globe to so many user (Buhari, 2016). The emergence of electronic information resources which pervaded all human endeavors, no doubt it has tremendously changed face of libraries. There is abundant opportunity in terms of resources available to all library patrons for appropriate research to enhance their productivity and promote creativity at both individual and organizational levels (Buhari, 2016). In the same vain Mubashrash (2013), viewed Library as a social institution, an organize collection of unpublished and published resources such as audio visual, books, which entice the user and staff who are the end users of the institutionInadequacy of facilities for use by users, the library inability to stay connected to the Internet in this ICT age, poor computer communication systems and poor bandwidth the is leading to poor utilization of these resources were some of the constraints to library information resources and services utilization in Nigeria. Buhari (2016),

Some resources in library are easily and freely accessible while some are restricted as a result of the library policy they are been limited to certain users that needs authentication and cost related issues the Library of Congress (LC) gave out some policies statement, the guidelines distinct that electronic resources as work that need a lot of encryption and which should be made accessible with the use of a computer (Ekere, Omekwu, & Nwoha Chindinma M, 2016). Electronic resources which is accessed via the internet and online includes the databases, online indexes e- journals, e-books, and websites resources can be accessed online. EBSCOHOST, HINARI, AGORA, JSTOR, OARE. These information resources find their way to the library through a well-coordinated efforts of acquisition, organization, selection, and maintenance (Ekere, Omekwu, & Nwoha Chindinma M, 2016). A library resource also can be viewed as the content of intended use of resources found in library and information centers. Digital resources collection in library is the subscription of materials that is based in library, customized and developed using the combination of equipment and materials in a library and all necessary tools to asses them these includes the visual materials, Urls, online reference reader, videos, maps audio materials and websites (Felicia I. U., 2015).

Provision of Library Services in Academic Library Librarianship is a service oriented profession, for all the activities of any library, the academic library is the university’s major instrument in fulfilling its objective, as such all the activities of the library are geared towards the provision of effective and efficient services to its patrons, every user wants his need to be identified and translated into effective services (Bappah, 2011). The resources of a library may not have any significance unless it is put into maximum utilization by provision of services. Therefore, the greatness of a library can only be assessed not by the volumes of its collection but by the type of services it provides at the satisfaction of the users. The Rangananthan first Law “every book its user” is a motivating direction but which cannot be achieved except through bibliographical and physical accessibility (Patil & Pranita, 2014). Along these lines, the administrations which the library gives must be those which make comprehensive use of the resources conceivable and advancing complete joining of the library with learning process (Singh and Kaur, 2009). The aims of library services in an academic library therefore should reflect those of the institutions which the library serves. The positive impact of the ICTs on library services is directly proportional to the benefits derivable by library users themselves (Buhari, 2016). The accruing benefits to the society are so enormous that there is no sphere of life without the internet application. Other basic services provided by library to their users, circulation. of reading materials, reading room facility, home lending service, inter-library service, document delivery service, consultation of catalogues/OPACs, etc. but emphasized that the role of librarian is most crucial and important. The advent of ICT in academic library has affected the entire functions in library environment and the role and services it provides (Eze & Uzoigwe, 2013). The emergence and growth of IT in library and information centers has a positive impact to information resources it has change the away library operate the routine activities and the services they provide. The electronic gadget know replace the analog way of accessing information resources by users and librarians this helps in all the aspect of library services with the paradigm shift (Eze & Uzoigwe, 2013). E-resources and e-library are know the order of the day in library and information practice academic library today have adopted to the e-environment because libraries know realize that the world today is a virtual realities and user of library want there needs to be fulfill (Eze & Uzoigwe, 2013). Today, the services in academic library in the 21st era is driven using an inclusion of information and communication technology and information explosion towards library service. The administrations of library is exceptionally central to the powerful and effective conveying to clients, with the acquaintance of ICTs with library capacities bookkeepers discover it esteem fit to convey required administrations to their client (Kumar, 2009).

Staffing of Academic Library Library staffing is one of the core aspect of library management it vary considerably and depending on various factor as in the intuition, governance, and funding pattern. The staffing of library and the responsibility of and duties of the non-professionals, professional goes with the duties assign specialization of different field in library (Samuel & Bantai, 1999). Library staffing and pattern is apparent to libraries today to employ, staff with the experiences of the modern technologies are given more place to library setting today. A lot of libraries in the developing and develop in the world are now addressing the main question of staff utilization this is as result of the global economic recession that is affecting the financial issue of libraries and making libraries to decline in resources and budget cut. The importance of proper staffing for effective and efficient service delivery hanged on the capability and skills of the staff recruited (Samuel & Bantai, 1999).

Libraries today are rich with staff that have long years of experience and are expected to keep pace with the changing needs and interests of patrons and the entire community. Staff recruitment, retention, and continuous personal development have become critical strategic organizational concerns crucial to the survival of library and information staff in the information service industry (Mbofung, 2015). While recruiting, retaining, and sustaining staff depend heavily on personal innovativeness, viability of the organization revolves around continual training and development of the workforce in new skills needed to cope with modern trends. On the part of the organization, retention requires great capacity to sustain staff effectiveness and motivation by providing meaningful opportunities for staff to discover self and willingly use an inner drive to make meaningful contributions to the organization and find recognition for their efforts. This challenges the institutions to invest in hiring, training, and retraining staff to enable them to meet the ever-evolving challenges of the broad-based mission of libraries (Mbofung, 2015).

Thus, managing a change in libraries must focus on how to balance benchmarks existing in the staff structure and ensure that the outcome supports changing work demands. This will also enable a library to attract highly qualified candidates to its workforce. The reason being that some staff felt that titles undermine the attributes and skills that is required to do the job and did not adequately define their function and role to the library users. However, two main broad categories of staff were isolated namely: para-professional and professional staff. The para-professional category title includes, IT help-desk assistant, information assistant, and learning center assistant. While for the for the professional posts includes information officer, information adviser, including senior principal posts and learning adviser in the library and information canters. Only one member of staff titles for the professional staff posts included data counselor, data officer including senior main posts and learning consultant. Only a single individual from professional staff had administrator joined to the title (Mbofung, 2015).

Collection Development in Academic Library The major role of University libraries is to select, provide and maintain the access to relevant and descriptive information resources this can be accomplished and determined with adequate collection development. Library and information Centre view collection development as one of the great element of information life cycle a library future because it is significant to the effective and efficient performance of a library (Ghalib & Rubina, 2016). Collection development measures the strength and weakness of any library as stated by Samuel & Florence (2016). Collection development involves a lot of process of handling and planning library resources for acquisition and selection criteria. By acquiring a balanced collection that will fulfill library and information centers objectives (Ghalib & Rubina, 2016). The crucial function of a library collection depend on the way the library acquire, store and order it information resources to meet it teaming users, collection development depend on the prevailing undressing of its parent institution (Sanjay, 2016). As such the accumulation of collection in library has been utilized by a few bookkeepers to allude to the upkeep of library materials as unmistakable from gathering improvement to any library (Sanjay, 2016). Collection development can be portrayed as the methods for working up and enhancing a library's data resources. Collection development includes a considerable measure of procedure of taking care of and arranging library resources for obtaining and choice criteria, by gaining an adjusted accumulation that will satisfy library users and focuses on targets audience (Khan & Bhatti, 2016). Collection development in library is a way to build up a library and information center and the collection development involves series of activities from the process of handling, planning, acquisition, and selection. All this are done in library and information centers to make it relevant and up to date to mission of the institution (Khan & Bhatti, 2016).

Collection development is one of the important and challenging library management activity (Sasikala, 2014). Collection development is guided in many libraries by the gathering improvement approach of resouces. It is important to have the gathering advancement approach written to make for objectivity in building up the library collections. The maintenance of library collection is accompanied by techniques which help in the support of library collection, the conservation of resources in library is due necessary with the view to prolong the life span of resources this technique will require protecting and preserving of books against deterioration and decay, the preserving measures in cleaning and dusting of resource on shelves needs to be carried out on regular basis. Resources like books needs to be exposed to adequate sunlight and air for short time so as to be keep away from damp places. Pest control treatment may be got done on periodic basis (Dhawan, 2016).

Interview Interview Analysis 4.3.1 Responses of the University Librarian - This section present the data that was collected from the acting University librarian Mrs. Esther Gani it is reported base on the theme/items asked in the interview scheduled which were centered on major variable of the research.

4.3.2 Presentation and analysis of the response from the Interview - As mention earlier an interview was held with the acting University librarian and the responses are therefore reported as follow: Question 1: What is the nature of the library collection; in terms of subject coverage, and format? Response: The University librarian responded that the Kaduna state university library is a full pledge academic library that covers all the subject areas i.e. (Accounting, Agricultural Sciences, Arabic, Agronomy, Agricultural , Biology, Botany, , Business Administration, , Computer Sciences, English Language, French, , , Hausa Language, Islamic Studies, Medicine, Mathematics, Mass Communication, Micro Biology, Pharmacy, Political Science, Physics, , and Zoology). This programmes listed are run at various level right from Remedial, Bachelor, MSc up to PhD level. That have been studied by the university. In the area of collection she reported that the library collection includes: books, periodicals, thesis/dissertation/UG projects, audio- visual materials, journals, government publication, newspapers/magazines and e-resources (subscribed and free d- base). She also added that there are non-print materials in the library.

Question 2: How are the print resources acquired? Response: The acting university librarian responded that the library acquires its resources from the three conventional sources of acquisition, Purchase, Donation and exchange these include purchase of library materials from the allocation that was of given to it through direct purchase from local and foreign vendors, donations from individuals, National bodies through National University Commission (NUC), Tertiary Education Trust fund (TETFUND). Library development fund (LDF) and from the international bodies like the MAC-Arthur foundation, and also through the exchange of materials from another library through resources sharing.

Question 3: How are the non-print resources acquired? Response: The acting University librarian referred the researcher to the head of collection development which the collection librarian respondent that the library subscribed to online resources like Nigeria Virtual library, Hinary, Ebschohost. Some of the online resources are given free from NUC, TETFUND. The consortium of university libraries within the country which the library is a member also joined hand to subscribe to resources among the participating libraries. She also said that among all these, the university it is the Elsevier that library renewed it services every year through the representative from the company so that users of the library can have access to Science Direct which is the common one within the library community.

Question 4: Who is responsible for the selection and acquiring the resources? Response: The acting university librarian responded that it is the Head of collection development that is responsible for the selection and acquiring of resources in the library. However, HODs of all department also help in selecting relevant materials for their department from the list that have been sent to them from the collection department. After the selected materials have been sent back to the collection development unit, the collection librarian collects and harmonize the entire list before placing an order within the country or outside foreign countries.

Question 5: Who is/or which department or unit is responsible for the organization of resources of the library? Response: The librarian responded that it is the head of classification and cataloguing staff that are responsible for the organization of resources, also she stated that from collection development were all resources that comes to the library are given accession number and ownership stamp, it is from there that the resources are been taken to the cataloging and classification unit for proper resource organization in the library.

Question 6: How do you organize materials in your library? In terms of the Classification and Cataloging? Response: The University librarian responded that the Kaduna state university library organized its resources through the use of Library of Congress Classification scheme (LCC) and also the library uses the classified catalog in arranging catalog cards in the cabinet for the classified catalog, while for the author and title entries it uses letter by letter filling system.

Question 7: What type of services or what are the range of services that are provided by the library? Response: The acting university librarian responded that the types of services rendered by the University Library include: Reference Services, Customer services, Current Awareness Services, User Education, Indexing, Automation services, SDI, Reprographic services, Inter library loan, Capacity building, Bindery service, Collection development services, Cataloging and Classification services, photocopying services and E-library services.

Question 8: what is the level of staffing of the library? In terms of the Size and Qualification Response Qualification/Rank No. of Respondents DLS/HND 7 BLS/BLIS 20 MLS/MLIS 5 PhD 1 and 2 (in-view) Graduate Assistant 0 Graduate Librarian 0 Assistant Librarian 24 Librarian II 2 Librarian I 2 Senior Librarian 2 Principal Librarian 0 Deputy UL 0 Professor 0

Source: Esther Gani Acting University Librarian

The acting university librarian gave out the total number of staff in a tabular form; the library have a total of 65 staff which consist of academic and non-academic staff. The library now employ only graduate with second class upper (2:1) to be given academic position of Assistant librarian while those with second class lower are given Non- Academic position of Higher library Officer (HLO). The qualification of the library staff ranges from diploma in library Science, Higher National Diploma (HND), Bachelors of Library and information Science (BLIS), Masters in Library and information science (MLIS) to Ph.D. Currently the Assistant librarians are enrolled on Masters in library and information science (MLIS) programmes at various University within Nigeria.

Question 9: How is the library manage generally, through committee or any other way? Response: The acting university librarian responded that the library is manage through Library management Committee (LMC) and library board (LB). The chairman of the library committee is appointed by the university vice chancellor who is an academic professor and some senate members of the university, the library board monitors the affairs of the library. However , based on her response the library management committee is an internal committee within the library the members of the committee in the LMC comprises of University Librarian as the chairman of the committee, the Deputy University Librarian, the head of all sections and department. The LMC reports the affairs of the library to the Library board who are answerable to the vice chancellor.

Question 10: What are the major challenges in managing the library and also what measure were taking to address the challenges? Response: The acting university librarian responded that the problems of staff of the library is becoming a thing of the past, the library have enough senior staff but there is need for para professional to be employed in the library, all these hang to at back of insufficient fund that the library is facing to manage its resources and services. According to her one of the major problems facing the library is lack of constant power supply, shortage of junior staff, internet connectivity, Library accommodation, staff training, and security. That affect the smooth conduct of the library services e.g. Automation services, binding services, the photocopying services, in the library. She also stated that there problem of theft and mutilations by users of the library were some books are not seen and sometimes before the funds of the library are been release it takes long time. The University librarian also responded that the library is doing personal training, Run double shifts, use personal modems and have been making series of submission and request which are forwarded to the university management and NGOs for proper funding of the library. Also fund provided from the TETUND are fully utilized to procure materials. Similar, Donor agencies and individuals are being contacted vigorously since from the establishment of the library to date.

Recommendations Based on the findings of the study, the following recommendations are made: ▪ Organization of resources - The library should maintain the present organization of information resources in the library with library of congress classification scheme, because it accommodate more resources in academic library and also give room for future enhancement.

▪ Library services - The library should make adequate improvement on recreational services and automation services that it has been offered to the users in other to enhance the teaching and learning of the University for effective and efficient utilization of the resources, because must users borrow resources than any other services provided and also the library should make provision in the acquisition of stand by generator to enhance the service

▪ Soliciting of resources - The library should continue to solicit for books, donation and fund from individuals so as to reduce the cost of acquiring E-resources. This can be achieved by organizing an appeal fund to solicit for assistance from corporate bodies.

▪ Library staffing - The library should employ more supporting staff because of the service it rendered, from the study it was shown that the library have more senior staff that why the services of the library are not carried out effectively because each cadre in library has it own role.

▪ Library free E- resources - The management of the library should find another mean to sustain its subscription to E-resources because their importance to teaching and research to the University. The library management should subscript to more on free resources like the NDLI,KOHA, ILMU, and Agora these are free resources that are been use by many libraries in Asia e.g. Malaysia because of the free resources available on it. Finally, the library should make more effort in the provision of adequate power supply. A standby generator should be provided to the library to ensure uninterrupted power supply. This will help in achieving the smooth conduct of the library services to user.

Conclusion This study was undertaken in order to investigate the management of information resources and services of Kaduna State University, library in Nigeria. The literature reviewed, and the discussions have clearly demonstrated that the library still have a very far to go with respect to library management. The Kaduna State University library management provides different types of resources and services and also, the library uses LC Library of Congress in information organization. The library management is trying to see that its resources and services are utilized efficiently and effectively. However, the management faces some problems which includes inadequate fund, theft and mutilation of resources and lack of constant power supply affect the smooth conduct of services in the library. In this vain the library management is tying its best to address those problems, for example by appealing to the state government for adequate funding and compliments from individuals and non-governmental organizations. Therefore, if the recommendations given are adhered to and implemented the researcher is optimistic that the problems faced by the library will be reduced to minimal level or even solved.

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