Library User Education Service: A Synthesis of Federal Colleges of Education Kano and Zaria, Nigeria

Library user education service is important. While this vital program of the academic library remains significant, students use of the library have proven poor to some extent, for example, ineffective use of library resources which is directly linked to vain library user education students receive. Therefore, the objective of this study was to study the effectiveness of library user education services in increasing library usage in FCE Kano and FCE Zaria, specifically, finding out if there exist variation in schemes of library user education practice in the two institutions. The professional library stafs of the colleges were used as sample of the study, wherein, a questionnaire was designed to collect data from them. Data collected were analyzed in descriptive and inferential statistics of frequency/percentage and non-parametric test of Mann Whitney. Findings of the study indicated
that, a type of library user education service adopted by the academic libraries of FCE Kano and FCE Zaria was a ‘traditional user education
service’, embracing in common ‘library orientation for first year students’, and ‘subject oriented instruction’. One of the recommendations made included, inculcation of ‘Literature searching for final year student’ as a crucial library user education scheme for both
FCE Kano and FCE Zaria.

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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The datasets used in this study are openly available at [repository link] and the source code is available on GitHub at [GitHub link].

This work did not receive any external funding.