%0 Journal Article
%T Evaluation of Library Resources: A Study of Sir Arku Korsah Law Library, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
%A AA Aforo
%J Journal of Science and Technology (Ghana)
%D 2012
%I 
%X Two years after the establishment of the Sir Arku Korsah Law Library in the Faculty of Law, KNUST-Kumasi, Ghana, there is the need to evaluate services provided to its patrons in order to continually improve upon them. The study was therefore aimed at evaluating the library¡¯s resources and services to students of the Faculty of Law, KNUST, and the Ghana School of Law, Kumasi Campus. Designed questionnaire with self-explanatory closed and open-ended questions on the library use and the library¡¯s computer facility among others were administered to 112 students (obtained by convenience sampling) in a cross-sectional quantitative survey at the library, KNUST. Questionnaire responses were analyzed and plotted using SigmaPlot 11. Seventy four students (66.07%) indicated they visit the library either daily or two to three times a week, nineteen students (16.96% ) visit the library between once a week and once a month, and nineteen (16.96 %) visit during examination period. Facilities mostly used are reference books (36.6%). Sixty four (57.1%) students use the library for reference and reading only, while thirty two (28.5%) come in to use the computer facility and sixteen (14.4%) to make photocopy. Fiftyone percent accessed the computer facility once or twice a week. Ninety nine students (88%) endorse the presence of the ICT section in the Library and describe it as a vital service for research work. Seventy one (63%) indicate that the library is not friendly to the physically challenged. In conclusion, the reference and the ICT sections need to be expanded and services improved.
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