RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND LIBRARY EFFECTIVENESS IN KWARA STATE PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS: A SCHOOL COMMUNITY SYNERGISM

Abstract

The study looked into the connection between school-community synergism for resource development and library effectiveness in public secondary schools in Kwara State, Nigeria. The study was descriptive and correlational in scenery. Multi-stage sampling of stratified, purposive, proportional and random techniques was used to select 960 respondents in 60 public secondary schools. Data was collected with the use of School-community Synergism and Library Effectiveness Index Questionnaire (ScSLEIQ). Collected data were analysed with applicable statistical tools like mean and standard deviation, Pearson Production Moment Correlation (PPMC) and Regression Analysis. Result obtained revealed that, the overall extent of school-community synergism for resource development was low (grand mean scores 2.41), whereas the level of library effectiveness was moderate (grand mean scores 2.61). The study concluded that, school-community synergism in the development of resources contributed 58.2% (R =.582) to effectiveness of public secondary school libraries in Kwara State, Nigeria. Keywords: Library Effectiveness, Resources, School-Community, Synergism