Abstract
Enquiring into perspective of today practitioner Cataloguers is imperative. Such an understanding of motivations and inspirations could provide the cataloguing profession a glimpse of the future. This could help to improve the profession especially in the light of Information Technology application and adoption to librarianship. To appraise opinions of cataloguers on the job, structured survey questionnaire, was used to collect data that answer questions on attitude and interest of Cataloguers towards their profession, examine the relationship between demographic variables, attitude and interest of Cataloguers towards the profession. Copies of the instrument were administered to 279 practicing Cataloguers in 48 Nigerian public University Libraries. SPSS was used for correlation analysis. The results showed enthusiasm towards the profession, analysis however indicated varied correlational relationships between the demographic variables, interest and attitude variables.
Highlights
Quality control of resources in the Library has been the responsibility of Cataloguers who provide bibliographic direction for the Library users
The questionnaire was administered to practicing Cataloguers in 48 Nigerian public University Libraries
The analysis showed that 16.6%, of the Cataloguers are less than 36 years of age while about half of the respondents (41.9%) are between 36 – 45 years of age
Summary
Quality control of resources in the Library has been the responsibility of Cataloguers who provide bibliographic direction for the Library users. This responsibility in turn depends on the skills, knowledge, expertise and tools as well as the zeal and interest of the Cataloguer. There are limited researches on the interest and attitude of practising professional Cataloguers to the cataloguing profession from developing countries. This class of Librarians have been acknowledged as indispensable to library services provision
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