THE INFLUENCE OF BUDGETING ON COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT INPUBLIC UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES IN SOUTH – SOUTH, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study was carried out to determine the influence of budgeting on collection development in public university libraries in South – South, Nigeria. To achieve the purpose of the study, one research question was raised and one hypothesis formulated to guide the study. Two theories pertinent to the study were discussed; the theories were General Systems Theory of management and Ranganathan’s Five Laws of library Science. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design. The population consisted of 229 professional librarians and paraprofessional librarians from five public university libraries in South-South, Nigeria. The sample size used was 229 respondents who represented the whole population since the population was small and of a manageable size. A researcher developed questionnaire titled: “Budgeting Practices and Collection Development Questionnaire (BPCDQ)” which was used to collect data for analysis of the study. The Cronbach Alpha reliability test was used to analyse the data obtained which yielded a reliability coefficient of .802 The instrument was administered to the sampled population in their respective Universities with a returned rate of 90%. The data obtained was analysed using mean statistics to answer the research questions and dependent t-test to test all the hypotheses at .05 level of significance. The result obtained showed that there is a significant influence of budgeting on collection development.