Title: Continuous Professional Development and Work Engagement of Librarians in Federal Universities in North West, Nigeria
Author(s): Madukoma, Ezinwanyi; Ali Garba
Publication Year: 2022; Volume 17, Issue 1, pages 149-161

This study investigated the influence of continuous professional development on work engagement of librarians in federal universities in North West, Nigeria. Survey research design was used for the study. The target population comprised 332 librarians in federal universities in North West, Nigeria. Total enumeration was used to encompass the librarians. Questionnaire was used for data collection Out of 332 copies of the questionnaire distributed to the respondents, 305 were retrieved and found useful for the study. Data collected were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics via SPSS. The results revealed that librarian’s level of work engagement was high (grand mean=2.79, SD=.845), while their level of continuous professional development was low (Grand mean=2.34, SD=.899) and the findings further revealed that continuous professional development (R2=.410, ?=.633, F (2,302) = 104.843, p<0.05) had significant influence on work engagement of librarians. The study concluded that continuous professional development of librarians could influence their work engagement in federal universities in North West, Nigeria. The study recommended that, the management of federal universities in collaboration with the federal university libraries in North-West, Nigeria should try to maintain and continue to satisfy the job demands of librarians as well as to provide adequate job resources to sustain work engagement of librarians in their domain. They should uplift the level of continuous professional development of librarians by sponsoring them to further their education, attend seminars, workshops and conferences regularly. In addition, librarians in federal university libraries in North-West, Nigeria should actively participate in web-based CPD programmes via webinars, zoom, massive open online courses, social media platforms among others.