LIBRARY SERVICES AND INFORMATION NEEDS IN DISTANCE LEARNING PROGRAMMES

Solomon Irieguna, Chinelo Obikulu, Gloria Ngozi Ugochukwu, Rita Chinenye Nwambu

Abstract


The growing demands for an inclusive education have given birth to the distant learning programmes. Of such distant learning educational arrangement is the programmes offered by distance learning institutions such as the national open university (NOUN). The distance learning educational programme has afforded individuals of various ages, tribe, occupation, status and gender to access equal information for their personal and socioeconomic development. Therefore, these students will require library services that will solve their information needs and also improve on their learning and research activities. To this end, the tertiary institution’s library services that can be offered to the part time distance learners can be library website as a service point; online public access through regional centre; librarian document delivery through regional centre; online reference; and information literacy which will all enhance the satisfaction of the information needs of the students in the programme. The study concluded that the library services provided by distance learning institution to their students are expected to satisfy the information needs of distance learning students in Nigeria. The study recommended that distance learning institutions should take up the responsibility of identifying the value of the library resources and effectiveness of library' services and as well establish reliable cost effective internet connectivity to cushion the effect of challenges facing the students in the use of ICT.


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Library services, Information needs, Distance learning, Distance learning institutions, Distance learning students

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