Annual Performance Appraisal of Practising Librarians : A Study of Academic Institutions in Nigeria

Abstract

This paper investigated annual performance appraisal questionnaire administered by individual academic institutions in Nigeria ,examined professional job specifications for academic librarians serving in these institutions studied to establish the annual performance appraisal style adopted by the academic institutions. Survey method was adopted using self structured questionnaire to personally collect data from the respondents , comprising fifty-one academic institutions across Nigeria. The result shows that, different department in the studied institutions was changed with the responsibility of carrying out Annual Performance Assessment, discuss performance evaluation purpose and values, higher number of the respondents suggested that Librarians should be evaluated on the bases of their job specifications and that the planning and execution could be done centrally or within the Library system. Finally, conclusion and recommendations were provided on how best Annual Performance Assessment practice could be improved upon by organizational leaders to enhance productivity.