Influence of Public Relations Practice on Job Performance of Library Staff in Federal Universities in Plateau and Nasarawa State

Abstract

The study investigated the “Influence of Public Relations Practice on Job Performance of Library Staff in Federal Universities in Plateau and Nasarawa States, Nigeria”. The study adopted descriptive survey research design anchored on one objective and one hypothesis. The objective of the study was to find out how public relations practice influences job performance of library staff in Federal Universities in Plateau and Nasarawa States, Nigeria. The population of the study was 168 library staff drawn from the universities under study. The entire population was adopted as sample because it was manageable. Questionnaire tagged Influence of Public Relations Practice on Job Performance (IPRPJPQ) was used for data collection while descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the data and answer research question while chi-square was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed that, the public relations practices influence job performance in university libraries and that public relations practices in these federal universities have significant influence on job performance of library staff in the university libraries. The study recommended that all library staff in higher institutions of learning should embrace public relations so that information resources stored in the libraries can be easily accessed and used by users, there should be an outlined policy which could be a guide to make library staff inform of their role in reference and public relations activities.