Volume 12, Issue 1, November 2014, Pages 223–231
Stephen Adeyemi Bello1, Helen Remilekun Oluleye2, and Mercy I. Omojola3
1 Department of Library and Information Science, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
2 Kogi State College of Education Technical, Kabba, Kogi State, Nigeria
3 Kogi State University Library, Anyigba, Kogi State, Nigeria
Original language: English
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Public information center store information resources to meet information needs of public. The purpose of the study is to investigate whether the communities' dwellers in Kogi-West Senatorial District in Kogi State of Nigeria need standard public information center. Also to know their information needs and preferred information resources. Descriptive survey design was adopted. Instruments for data collection are questionnaire and personal interview. Simple percentage was used for data analysis; where 50% and above is considered agreed and accepted while 50% and below is considered not agreed and rejected. At of 700 respondents accidentally selected 683 (97.5%) want establishment of standard public information center while, 27 (3.8%) show no interest. Those that want the establishment their information needs cut across agriculture, business, health, politics, and education; and their preferred information resources are books & papers, television, radio, resource persons, and Internet. Recommendations were proffered to enable effective establishment of standard public information centers in the communities understudy.
Author Keywords: Public information center, Public library, Information needs, Information sources, Kogi- west senatorial district, Kogi state, Nigeria.
Stephen Adeyemi Bello1, Helen Remilekun Oluleye2, and Mercy I. Omojola3
1 Department of Library and Information Science, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
2 Kogi State College of Education Technical, Kabba, Kogi State, Nigeria
3 Kogi State University Library, Anyigba, Kogi State, Nigeria
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Public information center store information resources to meet information needs of public. The purpose of the study is to investigate whether the communities' dwellers in Kogi-West Senatorial District in Kogi State of Nigeria need standard public information center. Also to know their information needs and preferred information resources. Descriptive survey design was adopted. Instruments for data collection are questionnaire and personal interview. Simple percentage was used for data analysis; where 50% and above is considered agreed and accepted while 50% and below is considered not agreed and rejected. At of 700 respondents accidentally selected 683 (97.5%) want establishment of standard public information center while, 27 (3.8%) show no interest. Those that want the establishment their information needs cut across agriculture, business, health, politics, and education; and their preferred information resources are books & papers, television, radio, resource persons, and Internet. Recommendations were proffered to enable effective establishment of standard public information centers in the communities understudy.
Author Keywords: Public information center, Public library, Information needs, Information sources, Kogi- west senatorial district, Kogi state, Nigeria.
How to Cite this Article
Stephen Adeyemi Bello, Helen Remilekun Oluleye, and Mercy I. Omojola, “Standard Public Information Centre for Effective National Development: Case Study of Communities Dwellers in Kogi-West Senatorial District, Kogi State, Nigeria,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 223–231, November 2014.
