Salary as a motivational factor and service delivery of academic librarians in university libraries in South–South, Nigeria

Abstract

This study investigated the relationship between salary and service delivery of academic librarians among university libraries in South–South, Nigeria. The main purpose was to examine the relationship between salary and service delivery of academic librarians among university libraries in South-South, Nigeria. Ex-post-facto research design was adopted. The population of the study comprises 175 academic librarians working in public university libraries in South-South, Nigeria. The entire population was used for the study. The instrument used for data collection was a structured questionnaire. A total of 175 copies of questionnaire were administrated to the respondents and all were returned, four (4) of the returned copies of questionnaire were rejected because they were not completely filled. Therefore, a total of 171 copies of questionnaire (98%) were used for the analysis. Descriptive statistics and Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (r) were used to answer the research questions, Regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The results of the analysis for the research questions show that, there is a relationship between salary and service delivery of academic librarians among university libraries in South-South,, Nigeria. The results of the analysis also show that the hypothesis was rejected. This means that there is a significant relationship between salary and service delivery of academic librarians among university libraries in South–South, Nigeria. Based on the findings, the study recommended that, management of universities should offer attractive salary and other monetary incentives to their academic librarians. In conclusion, it is clear that the two variables salary and service delivery are correlates to each other.