THE INFLUENCE OF STUDENTS ATTITUDE TOWARDS CATALOGUING AND CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES (A CASE STUDY OF FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC OFFA KWARA STATE)
Abstract
This study examined the influence of students’ attitude towards cataloguing and classification technique in academic libraries. The objectives of the study examined the attitude of students towards cataloguing and classification at Federal Polytechnic Offa Kwara State, determined the factor that gives rise to the attitude towards learning of cataloguing and classification, identified the challenges being encountered during cataloguing and classification and proffer solution to the challenges being encountered by the Student at Federal Polytechnic Offa Kwara State. The descriptive method was adopted for research design. Questionnaires are administered to 100 respondents and all the questionnaires were retrieved. The findings of the study shows that students have negative attitude towards cataloguing and classification this means that students of federal polytechnic Offa don’t like cataloguing and classification. Also findings shows that time consume, boring of the class, difficult to understand and traditional method of cataloguing and classification are the factors that gives rise to the attitude towards learning of cataloguing and classification at the Library and Information Science. More so, finding shows that students of library and information science at Federal Polytechnic Offa encountered a lot challenges which discourage them of cataloguing and classification in the library. Finding shows that training and retraining of cataloguing and classification lecturers, provision of internet facilities with many computers to work with in the laboratory, organize group for team work and collaboration and subscription of online subject headings and schedules may go along way in assisting students to practice on their own will be the prospect of by students of library and information science at Federal Polytechnic Offa., recommendations were made, that the management should make provision for computers to work with in the laboratory connected with internet so as to have access to latest rules guiding the cataloguing and classification activities and there should be group for team work and collaborate so that students will be sharing idea together and this will enhance their comprehension on the cataloguing and classification activities
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