AN EVALUATION OF RELEVANCE OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE PUBLICATIONS OF LIBRARIANS IN SOUTH-EAST NIGERIA: 2002 – 2012 IN FOCUS

The objective of the study was to ascertain the extent of relevance of print Library and Information Science publications by librarians in South East Nigeria, to the information needs of LIS students in Library Schools, South –East, Nigeria. The study was delimited to those LIS print information sources published within a ten year study period of 2000-2012.The study was guided by one objective, one research question and one null hypothesis. A total of 145 LIS publications; 46 textbooks and 99 journals, were surveyed for the research, and a population of 400 students from the delimited academic libraries was used. Chi square was used to answer the Research Questions, while the null hypothesis was tested using PPMC analytical statistics at 0.05 alpha level of significance. Data analysis yielded a low extent of availability of the selected LIS publications in the selected libraries, in relation to the extent of the publications, while the extent of their relevance was high. The extent of relevance was weakly significant to the information needs of the study population.