Utilization of Library and Information Resources

The study aimed at determining the extent of utilization of library and information resources for research by social science lecturers in universities, North-Central Zone of Nigeria. Based on the main purpose, six specific purposes and 4 hypotheses were formulated for the study. Survey research design was used for the study. The population consisted of 1,446, made up of 1,044 social science university lecturers in the five core social science subject areas, which consist of Economics, Geography, Mass Communication, Political Science and Sociology; 380 university library staff in charge of Social Science and Information and Communication Technology collections; and 22 university librarians in all the universities in the study zone. Proportionate stratified random sampling technique was used to select 640 social science lecturers as sample for the study. Purposive sampling technique was used for selecting 9 universities, 3 each from federal, state and private - owned institutions based on their functionality, availability of ICT facilities, and year of establishment of the institutions; university librarians from these 9 universities were included.