STUDENT’S PERCEPTION OF LIBRARY ORIENTATION PROGRAMME IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION

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STUDENT’S PERCEPTION OF LIBRARY ORIENTATION PROGRAMME IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)

ABSTRACT

Library orientation plays a prominent role in the success of students in heir academics. There is the belief that library users need one form of instruction or the other which will help them in developing their reading habits and self actualization. This project is therefore undertaken to examine how users student feel about this user education and to bring a lime light any possible problems they mght be facing in the exercise. It was discovered that students value library orientation as a necessary stepping stone to their perfect use of the library and its materials. However some posture recommendations are middle for ultimate improvement of users Education programme in College of Education.

CHAPTER ONE

1.1 Background to the Study

A student does not really learn to use the library by being told how to it, but by implementing what he/she had been told effectively whether in form of library orientation or bibliographic instruction, user education helps to create the right kind of atmosphere for effective communication between user’s and the library and to the library staff. This introduces the student to the sources of information and techniques of making use of the resources.

When a new students come into the college of education, he comes into the college of education for the first time into contact with the library designed primarily for study most fresh students in college of education are admitted directly from school where in most cases library services are not in existence, thereby making them novices as this is their first encounter with regards to library services.

This therefore implies that majority of the students do not usually have the required knowledge on how to use a college library Their background is usually that of a strict adherence to specific textbooks and class notes.

STUDENT’S PERCEPTION OF LIBRARY ORIENTATION PROGRAMME IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION