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The children library's resources and service in Edo state public library vary according to the location. The categories of the libraries are; urban area libraries(UAL), sub-urban area libraries(SAL) and rural area libraries (RAL). The difference in the resources and services indicated that resources and services are not evenly distributed in the state.

This study investigated the use of library resources by the lecturers in the Faculty of Science, University of Ibadan. Six research questions were formulated to guide the study. The descriptive survey design was adopted in the study. The study population comprised the teaching staff in all the 11 departments in the Faculty of Science, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire. The findings of the study revealed that only 15.5% of the respondents visit the library frequently to use library resources. Expectedly the basic reasons for library use by the respondents were for research (70.6%) and teaching (36.6%). The extent of awareness of e-resources that are being provided by the library among the respondents was high (72.8%); however, only JSTOR was the most frequently used e-resources by the respondents (35.9%). It is recommended that the library should organize relevant sensitization programmes to increase the use of library and its resources by the respondents.

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.

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