The role of Public Libraries in meeting the information needs of the Community cannot be neglected. The Library is meant to serve the needs of all and sundry in the society without any bias. The main objective of this study was to examine the services of the Public Libraries in meeting the information needs of Post Secondary School Students in Public Libraries in Nigeria. The study adopted a Descriptive Survey Design and the Simple Random Sampling Techniques was used to select one hundred and fifty respondents (Post-Secondary School Students) in three selected Public Libraries, that is, Oyo, Ogun and Kwara State Library Boards. The questionnaire was the instrument used to collect data for the study, while descriptive statistics with tables of frequencies and percentages was used in analysing the data. The study revealed that the information needs of the Post-Secondary School Students were information on academic work, personal development and sports news and recreation. Different services rendered by Public Libraries were looked into. Inadequate information resources were the major factor militating against the Public Library services to the Post-Secondary School Students. Various reasons why post-secondary school students use the public library were also highlighted. It is recommended that adequate information resources be provided in Public Libraries so that information needs of the user can be met.
The use of Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) by students has a lot of advantages and computer self-efficacy is a factor that could determine its effective utilization. Little appears to be known about colleges of education students" use of OPAC, computer self-efficacy and the relationship between OPAC and computer self-efficacy especially in the Nigeria context. This gave rise to the study. The descriptive research design was used for the study and population comprised of 2755 students of the Federal College of Education (Technical) Lagos, Nigeria. The multistage random sampling technique was used to select the sample size of 209 and the questionnaire was the data collection instrument. Findings showed that most of the respondents 125 (61.6%) searched the OPAC through title and 53 (26.1%) used the OPAC twice a week. Results also showed that majority of the study had high computer self-efficacy, as there was a significant positive relationship between computer self-efficacy and use of OPAC(r = .430 **; df = 202; p< 0.01). It was recommended that alternative power sources should be provided to reduce incessant power outage that limits OPAC use.
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