School Library Resources Usage in a Faith-Based Secondary School

Abstract

A school library advances the course of education and is made up of resources such as books, learning aids, audio-visual and serial publications. The ownership of a school library requires huge investments in physical, human and material resources. Many schools are unable to justify the investment due to lack of data on library usage and access to library resources. This work seeks to provide information on library resource use by students in a faith-based secondary school. The data was collected from attendance register and library inventory. Simple statistical analysis was carried out on the data. Results indicate that the day of the week does not affect use of library resources. There is also the need for a variety of library resources because the reading pattern of the students changes every week.