Investigating Faculty-librarian Collaboration at Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu State.

Iwu-James, Juliana (2025) Investigating Faculty-librarian Collaboration at Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu State. HEARTBEAT JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, 6 (1). pp. 80-97.

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Abstract

This study investigated faculty-librarian collaborations at Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu. It considered the strategies, benefits, and challenges of faculty–librarian collaboration. The study employed a descriptive survey design. One hundred and eighty-eight (188) respondents participated, comprising eight (8) academic librarians and one hundred and eighty (180) faculty members. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire, while reliability was established using Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient. Descriptive statistical tools: frequency counts, percentages, mean scores and standard deviation, were employed for analysis. The study identified the strategies and benefits of faculty-librarian collaboration; it also x-rayed significant challenges of faculty-librarians collaboration: inadequate institutional support, time constraints, and limited recognition of librarians’ research expertise. The study concludes that sustained and institutionalized faculty–librarian collaborations are indispensable to achieving quality teaching, learning, and research outcomes in Nigerian universities. It recommends the development of formal collaboration frameworks, policy level support, periodic joint professional development programmes, and the formal/institutional recognition of librarians as academic partners in research and curriculum development.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Z665 Library Science. Information Science
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > Faculty of Law > Faculty of Management and Social Sciences > Faculty of Education
Depositing User: Uchenna Eneogwe
Date Deposited: 25 May 2026 12:15
Last Modified: 25 May 2026 12:15
URI: http://eprints.gouni.edu.ng/id/eprint/5669

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