Abstract
The study surveyed the impact of grant-in-aids Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) and donations/gifts as alternative sources of funding to support academic libraries in Cross River State, Nigeria. The survey design method was used to carry out the study. A modified six-point Likert-type scale questionnaire was designed to measure responses on sources of library funding and support through grant-in-aids (TETFUND) and donations/gifts from the institutions studies. The vetted instrument was administered on 30 senior management librarians from five (5) academic institutions in the state. The internal consistency of the instrument laid in the range (0.729<Yxx<893) with across the time stability in the range (0.706<Ytt<0.796) measured via Cronbach alpha and test-retest reliability respectively. The study found that grand-in-aids and donations/gifts have been playing vital supportive role in the funding of academic libraries. However, librarians on their part were not exploiting this avenue enough in their collection development strives. The author recommends that more efforts in this direction should be explored by librarians and that training on grant proposal writing for them should be provided to encourage, strengthen and equip them with skills to more seriously pursue these options. Key words: Funding, library resources, academic libraries, grant-in-aids (TETFUND), donations/gifts.
Highlights
Oyegunle (2013) defines academic library as a library that is attached to academic institutions above the secondary school level, serving the teaching and research needs of students and staff which serve two complementary purposes to support the school curriculum and to support the research of the university faculty and students
For each variable built on the six-point Likert scale, frequency of responses and their percentage were weighted such that a response of strongly agree (SA) was awarded 6 points, agreed (A), 5 points, tend to agree (TA) 4 points, tend to disagree (TD) 3 points, disagree (d) 3 points and strongly disagree (SD) one (1) point; if item is positively worded
The following recommendations are being offered for improvement: 1. A clarion call is being made on government to place the financing of education and the funding and recognition of libraries as critical infrastructure in learning especially in academic institutions
Summary
Oyegunle (2013) defines academic library as a library that is attached to academic institutions above the secondary school level, serving the teaching and research needs of students and staff which serve two complementary purposes to support the school curriculum and to support the research of the university faculty and students. The philosophy of an academic library focuses on providing active learning spaces and diverse services to meet the various needs of the students, faculty staff and entire parent institution (Oyegunle, 2013). It is imperative that libraries should be developed to meet the aspirations of patrons.
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