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Item Assessment of study space usage in the Kenneth Dike Library(University Libraries of the University of Nebraska,Lincoln, Nebraska, USA., 2017) Adeyemi, B. M.This paper explores the actual use of the physical space in Kenneth Dike Library by the students’ population, the role these spaces are playing for learning and for related services in the university of Ibadan academic environment. It looked at the suitability of available spaces and suggestions for improvement. Survey method was adopted for the study with 94.5% response rate. It found that quite study space is what attracts majority respondents to Kenneth Dike Library. What emerged was that academic pursuits remain the most common activities in the library space.Item Scholarly use of information for research by postgraduate students: the role of Kenneth Dike Library (KDL)(Academic Journals, 2013-09) Adeyemi, B. M.; Oluwabiyi, M.Research process is being focused upon by universities and colleges. An important element in the research process is the accessibility of information resources and services provided by libraries. Postgraduate students are one group of stakeholders in the universities. It is thus appropriate for academic libraries to re-examine how they can play a more relevant role in facilitating research. This study examines the views of postgraduate students on the role of the university library in helping them with their research and their satisfaction with the sources and services currently provided. The study adopted descriptive design and questionnaire was used to gather information from postgraduate students. Data were collected from 300 randomly selected postgraduate students from the university. They were analyzed with simple descriptive statistics. The findings show that the majority (55%) of respondents acknowledged the important role of library in facilitating research, while (48.2%) of the respondents were satisfied with the current role being played by the libraries. It is recommended that libraries need to create awareness among postgraduate students about the services and resources that are available and how to use them and academic libraries should be stocked with up-to-date materials in order to encourage researchers to use their facilities.Item Users’ perception of and satisfaction with library services: a case study of Kenneth Dike Library, University of Ibadan(Information and Knowledge Management Society, World Scientific, 2013) Adeyemi, B. M.; Fatoki, C. O.Academic libraries are facing challenges of competitive pressures, information availability, rising costs and a global digital environment. This situation calls for a better understanding of the specific needs of library users in order to provide the appropriate type and level of service that meets those needs. Assessment of service quality in libraries is one of the most reliable channels to know if clients are satisfied with services offered them. It is therefore imperative to investigate how library users perceive service quality. This paper examines the service quality and users’ satisfaction at Kenneth Dike Library, University of Ibadan and also examines how user surveys have been employed in a number of previously published literatures. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data for the study to evaluate the library’s performance by measuring the users’ satisfaction with (a) library services and resources (b) infrastructure/place/space and (c) suggestions for service improvement. The instrument was distributed randomly to a sample of 800 library users from the university. Suggestions are offered about ways library and information service providers could make more use of the information derived from their own and other organizations' user surveys to improve their services in order to survive.Item LIBRARY RESOURCES, SERVICES AND USE AS FACTORS INFLUENCING PUBLICATION OUTPUT OF FISHERIES SCIENTISTS IN NIGERIA(2013) MADU, I. D.Fisheries research support libraries in Nigeria are at the centre of information provision for fisheries research and development. As part of their responsibilities, they are expected to contribute to the increased publication output of the fisheries scientists which seems to be low. Available studies focused on the effect of library resources and services on publication output of agricultural scientists in general while there is a dearth of studies on the influence of factors that could affect the publication output of fisheries scientists in particular. This study, therefore, investigated library resources, services and use as factors influencing publication output of fisheries scientists in Nigeria. The Survey research design of the ex- post facto type was adopted. The Multi-stage random sampling procedure was used to select 335 fisheries scientists and 24 librarians (n = 359) from the three fisheries research institutes, three colleges of fisheries, 18 departments of fisheries in federal and state universities in Nigeria and 24 heads of the libraries. Six instruments were used for data collection: Fisheries Scientists' Questionnaire on Library Use (r = 0.71); Publication Output Questionnaire (r =0.77); Librarians' Questionnaire on Availability of Library Resources (r = 0.73); Availability of Library Services (r = 0.68); Use of Library Resources (r = 0.81) and Use of Library Services (r = 0.76). Six research questions were answered and five hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance. Data were subjected to descriptive statistics, Pearson Product Moment Correlation and Multiple Regression. The following proportions of the respondents indicated that computer based and other library resources and services were available, functional and adequate in their libraries: CD-ROM (40.9%); Internet (60.3%); print resources (83.6%); library staff (90.4%); reference services (79.2%) loans (66.7%) photocopying services (54.2%) and Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) (37.5%). Majority of the participants (62.7%) found journals most useful. There was a significant joint influence of availability of library resources, availability of library services, adequacy of library services, use of library resources and use of library services (R = 0.26) on publication output of the fisheries scientists (F(5,329) 5.83, P < .05). This implies that 6.7% of the variance in the publication output was accounted for by the combination of the independent variables in the dependent variable. The relative significance of four of the independent variables was: availability of library resources (? = -.140, t = 2.55, P< 0.05); availability of library services (? = 0.156, t = 2.68, P<0.05) use of library resources (? = -.147, t = 2.13, P<0.05) and use of library services (? -.141, t=2.18, P<0.05). This implies that adequacy of library services, unlike these other variables, did not have remarkable influence on the publication output of fisheries scientists in Nigeria. Library resources, services and use jointly, relatively highly contributed to the publication output of fisheries scientists in Nigeria. Fisheries research libraries need to increase provision of CD-ROM, Selective Dissemination of Information and other information resources and services for increased publication output of fisheries scientists in Nigeria.