Work environments and job performance of librarians in the public universities in South –west Nigeria
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2013-12
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This study investigates the work environments and job performance of librarians working in public
universities in South-West, Nigeria with the aid of survey research approach. Questionnaire was used
to elicit information from 189 Academic Librarians, out of which 153 (81%) copies of the questionnaire
were duly completed and returned. The data collected were analyzed using frequency count,
percentage and Anova Analysis tested at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that the work
environment of librarians in terms of physical facilities, open communication, motivation etc are fairly
favourable while personnel emolument was considered not to be favourable at all. This inadequacy is
reflected in the job performance of the librarians as their performance only seems to be fair. The study
also established that there is significant correlation between work environment and job performance of
the librarians. To alleviate the incidence of poor work environment and under performance in libraries,
the study recommended improvement in the levels of physical facilities, personnel emolument, open
communication as wells as adequate funding from government, donor agencies and philanthropist