Title: Evaluation of Children Library Staff of Public Libraries in Edo State, Nigeria
Author(s): Florence Adeola Omoba; Omoba, Rosnold Ogie
Publication Year: 2022; Volume 17, Issue 1, pages 26-34

A Library’s Success Is Wholly Dependent On Its Staff Members who, while working together, derive pleasure from their work and, more importantly, like interacting with children. The study is a descriptive survey. The population for the study consisted of all the staff and the children that make use of the Public libraries in Edo State. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select 4 local governments out of 18 local government, while 62 members of staff and 176 children were drawn by accidental sampling out of 124 and 815 registered children respectively in the state. Data for the study were collected using; Questionnaire for Public Library Users (QPLU), Questionnaire for Public Library Staff (QPLS), interview, observation and examination of existing library statistics. The data were analysed using percentages. The study revealed that untrained personnel are more (73%) than the trained personnel; there are more old people that are within the range of 41-60 years (72%) in the libraries; and very few staff development programmes were organised. Based on these findings, the study recommended that seminars and workshops should be organised for members of staff and they should also be sponsored to conferences. The members of staff should be given study leave with or without pay to go for professional courses. More trained staff should be employed and be deployed to all the public libraries in Edo state.