International Journal of Information Library and Society

1. Obia Gopeh Inyang – University Of Calabar Africana Library, Cross River State, Nigeria.

2. Patience Owere Ekpang – University Of Calabar Africana Library, Cross River State, Nigeria.

Received
06-Dec-2019
Accepted
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Published
06-Dec-2019
Abstract
Modern librarianship made marketing an important aspect of the profession, revealing the competencies displayed in the superfluity of knowledge services. The study revealed users’ perception of needs to market the library. These include to enlighten users’ on the contemporary relevance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) & manuals (97.9%), improvement of interpersonal relations (95.8%), for users’ to have a fearless knowledge in usage and satisfaction of their puzzles (93.9%) and for a conducive environment (91.4%), and to ascertain users’ information needs in this era (90.7%). Study also revealed that users’ perceived marketable services in the following order: online information services (97.2%), reference services (95.6%), user education (93.5%), selective dissemination of information (88.8%), information literacy programme (87.9%), current awareness services (86.2%), referrals (86%), library publication (82.5%), translation (82.03%), and interlibrary loan (67.4%). For the last objective, study revealed users’ perception of librarians’ competencies for marketing libraries in their preferred order – ability to create library web pages for users’ information (99.1%), information technology skills (98.4%), flexibility to make changes (96.7%), ability to calm offended users’ (96.5%), ability to answer users’ queries (96.3%), professional charisma (93.5%), professional initiative (90.7%), and ability to use ICT gadgets (90.4%). The researchers therefore recommends that management should help librarians to take part in training that would nurture the strengthening of these competencies.
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