TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title page –      –       –       –       –       –       –       –       i

Certification    –      –       –       –       –       –       –       ii

Dedication –    –       –       –       –       –       –       –       iii

Acknowledgement –        –       –       –       –       –       –       iv

Abstract –        –       –       –       –       –       –       –       vi

Table of contents –  –       –       –       –       –       –       viii

CHAPTER ONE

1.1   Introduction/Background of the study  –       1

1.2   Statement of the study   –       –       –       –       7     

1.3   Objectives of the study   –       –       –       –       9

1.4   Scope of the study  –       –       –       –       –       10

1.5   Significant of the study –        –       –       –       -11

1.6a. Research Questions –    –       –       –       –       12   

1.6b. Statement of Hypothesis –     –       –       –       13

1.7   Definition of terms- –       –       –       –       –       14

CHAPTER TWO

2.1   Literature Review – –       –       –       –       –       16

2.2   Selection  –     –       –       –       –       –       –       17

2.3   Acquisition  –  –       –       –       –       –       –       19

2.4   Acquisition Policy – –       –       –       –       –       22

2.5   Cataloguing –  –       –       –       –       –       –       24

2.6   Classification –        –       –       –       –       –       27

CHAPTER THREE

3.0   Research Methodology – –       –       –       –       31

3.1      Design of the study –       –       –       –       –       31

3.2      Area of study – –       –       –       –       –       –       32

3.3      Population  –    –       –       –       –       –       –       33

3.4      Sample and sampling technique –  –       –       33

3.5.1 Instrumentation    –       –       –       –       –       34

3.5.2 Validity of instrument-  –       –       –       –       34

5.5.3 Reliability of the instrument –       –       –       35

3.6   Instrument for data collection       –       –       35

3.7   Distribution and Retrieval of the instrument   36

3.8   Data analysis technique –      –       –       –       36

CHAPTER FOUR

4.1      Presentation and Data Findings –  –       –       37

4.2      Data analysis interpretation/Discussion of finding –    –       –       –       – –       –       –       37

CHAPTER FIVE

Summary, conclusion and recommendation

5.1      Summary –      –       –       –       –       –       –       48

5.2      Conclusion –    –       –       –       –       –       –       50

5.3      Recommendations –        –       –       –       –       50

References –    –       –       –       –       –       –       52

Appendix –       –       –       –       –       –       –       55

CHAPTER ONE

1.1  INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

        Evaluation according to BBC English Dictionary is decision about significant or valuable something is, based on a careful study of its good and bad features. Evaluation of technical services means to appraise or analyze the processes a library material should undergo right from acquisition until the material finally appear on the shelf for use.

        This project evaluates the technical services of technical service division of Abia state library board. Before delving into the actual project, it is important to explain with library is. According to Okorie (1964:101)

Libraries are usually those, whether municipal, country, regional or national, which are supported by public funds and open to the general library board.

According to Uba (1973:163) the term “technical services” in library parlance appears to have tow connotations. Viewed from the stand point of reference services which industries and technical libraries offers to their users, on the other hand, it mans the other work of the technical processing department of libraries-that is, cataloguing and classification and allied processes. Technical services therefore, refer to all the activities and processes concern with selecting, obtaining, organizing and processing of acquired library materials in the library. It is to achieve this end in the economic way that technical processing which according to him, is a means to an end service because cataloguing and classification provide the tools without which information services is impossible. In libraries, the handling of technical services is always the sole responsibility of the technical department. According to Harrod [1971] technical services is a department of a library where the function of a book acquisition, cataloguing, classification and processing are carried out.