CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS OF STAFF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT OF NON-PROFESSIONAL STAFF OF UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES IN NORTH EAST NIGERIA

Abstract

Thisstudy assessed the challenges andprospects of staff training and development of
non-professional staffof university libraries in North-East Nigeria. The study was
guided by three (3) specific objectives and research questions. Descriptive survey
research design was adopted for the study. The population for the study comprised all
non-professional staff from the thirteen (13) university libraries in study area totaling
two hundredandseventy-four(274) but due to security challenges in some part of the
study zone, the study covered only one hundred and ninety-four (194) in ten (10)
university libraries. The instruments used  for data collection was questionnaire and
interview. Data were analyzed using Mean and Standard Deviation. The findings of
the study revealed that majority ofthe staff training programmes were provided to
high extent in the university libraries especially orientation programmes. That
financialconstraintandpoorknowledge of ICT facilities are the mainproblemsfacing
staff training and development programmes. The study also brought to light that
adequatefundingandadequateprovision oftrainingfacilities (mostly current) should
be provided by the management. The study made some recommendations among
which are: The management of university libraries should induce their nonprofessional staff with finance to encourage them engage more in training
programmes, problems of poor funding and lack of computer training/internet
literacyshouldbeproperly addressed by the management.
Key Words: Challenges, Prospects, Staff Training and Development, Nonprofessional staff, University Libraries