Corruption: A bane to information utilization for governance in Secondary School libraries in Cross River State, Nigeria
- Author Bassey, Umo Antigha
- Co-Author Ikpeme, Bassey Ballantyne
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- Country : Nigeria
- Subject : Library and Information Science
Keywords : Corruption, Governance, Principals, Library Staff, School Library
Abstract
The study examined corruption as the bane to information utilization for effective governance in secondary schools libraries in Cross River State. Two hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Descriptive survey design was used for the study with the questionnaire as the instrument for data collection. The population for the study constituted 342 purposefully selected subjects made up of 245 principals and 97 library staff. The entire population was used for the study. The research data was analyzed using One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and were all subjected to testing at .05 level of significance with relative degrees of freedom. The analysis reveals that corruption in terms of poor funding and under-employment of staff significantly influences information utilization for effective governance of secondary school libraries across the slate. It was recommended that there should be collaboration between principals and library staff on how best to utilise the meagre funds for effective governance of the student users. Also there should be employment qualified personnel into the schools to man the school libraries instead of the unqualified ones on the basis of man-know-man.
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