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| Title: | Perceptions and attitude of students in relation to vandalism in a University Library |
| Authors: | Salaam, Mulikat O
Onifade, Fehintola N. |
| Issue Date: | Jun-2010 |
| Publisher: | CSIR |
| Abstract: | Reports
a study carried out at the University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Nigeria in
November, 2009 to find out students’ perceptions and attitudes to vandalism in
the library. To elicit the necessary information, a questionnaire was
distributed to 500 randomly selected students of the University spread across
the nine colleges out of which 386 responded. Analysis of their responses
showed that vandalism of library materials in the form of theft, mutilation and
hiding of books and journals, is largely regarded as a form of academic
self-survival strategy that is hardly frowned at by majority of the
respondents. Factors that predispose to vandalism include limited library
collections; restrictions in the use of some materials; number and duration of loans;
insufficient number of copies of recommended textbooks; unaffordable cost of
personal textbooks; high cost of photocopying as well as peer-influence.
Recommendations are made for liberalization of loans, intensification of user
education, provision of multiple copies of standard textbooks, occasional
mounting of conscience exhibitions’ as well as tighter security measures. |
| Page(s): | 146-149 |
| ISSN: | 0975-2404 (Online); 0972-5423 (Print) |
| Source: | ALIS Vol.57(2) [June 2010]
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