Media Resource Utilisation and Productivity of Lecturers in Federal Universities in South-West, Nigeria
Author(s): Sunday Olusola LADIPO & Kolawole Akinjide ARAMIDE (PhD)
Abstract – The study investigated the relationship between media resources utilization and productivity of lecturers in federal universities in south-west, Nigeria. Descriptive Survey research design was adopted for the study while the sample size for the study constitute 735.. Questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection. Findings from the study revealed a high level of productivity among lecturers in federal universities in south-west, Nigeria. Electronic media resources ranked highest among the media resources utilised by the lecturers closely followed by printed resources sources. The major purposes of utilising media resources by the lecturers were for preparing lecture notes, research and publications, obtaining general knowledge, paper presentation and writing papers and proposals. Regular use of print and electronic resources by the lecturers and positive significant relationship between media resources utilization and productivity of lecturers were also established. Recommendations were made on the need for management of federal universities should come up with policies that would encourage improve on the provisions and access to relevant media as well as enabling environment that could improve the lecturers’ productivity in the areas of teaching, research and publications.
Keywords - Media resources utilsation, Productivity of lecturers, Federal universities, Southwest, Nigeria.
DOI URL: https://doi.org/10.26761/ijrls.8.1.2022.1443
Cite This Article As: LADIPO, S.O. & ARAMIDE, K.A. (2022). Media Resource Utilisation and Productivity of Lecturers in Federal Universities in South-West, Nigeria. International Journal of Research in Library Science (IJRLS), 8(1) 26-49. www.ijrls.in
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Paper ID: IJRLS-1443 Page: 26-49 Publication Date: 17 January 2022