Influence of Management Principles of Organising on Automation of Libraries in Federal Universities in South-East, Nigeria

Abstract

This study investigated the influence of management principle of organising (as in the view of Luther Halsey Gulick and Lyndall Urwick (1937), who coined acronym called POSDCORB. POSDCORB stands for planning, organising, staffing, directing, coordinating, reporting and budgeting, and thus, constitutes what this study regards as the variables that could influence automation in the federal university libraries in south-east, Nigeria. n automation of libraries in Federal universities in south-east, Nigeria. One objective and one research question were used to guide the study while one hypothesis was formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significant. Descriptive survey was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised 378 personnel (academic and non-academic. Total enumeration was used to cover all of them. The instrument used for data collection was questionnaire. Validated copies of the questionnaire were tested for reliability using Cronbach Alpha, and the reliability coefficient was returned at average of = 0.83 confirming its reliability. The 378 copies of questionnaire were administered to the respondents through the help of research assistants one from each university. 375 were returned and 368 were correctly completed and used for data analysis. Data was analysed using descriptive statistics of mean frequency count and standard deviation. The mean was used for answering the research question while inferential statistics of t-test was used for testing the hypotheses. The result showed mean at 2.80 high extent of responses by the respondents agreeing that management principle of planning influence automation of university libraries in the South East. The conclusion was drawn that management principle of organising influence automation of academic libraries in federal universities in South-East, Nigeria.