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The main focus of the study is to investigate the influence of public relations: A sub-variable of marketing strategy on library services delivery (A case of Alex Ekwueme Library, Federal Polytechnic, Oko). One specific objective, one research question and one hypothesis was formulated and tested at 0.5 level of significance. Descriptive survey research design was used for the study. The population of 141 (91 for library users and 50 for staff) was used. Purposive sampling technique was adopted for the study. This was due to small sample size of 141 respondents. A structured questionnaire was used to elicit data from the respondents through research assistants. The data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation for the research question, while an independent t-test was used to test the null hypothesis. The result revealed that there is a significant influence of public relations on Library service delivery in the understudied. Based on the findings, it was recommended that the library should be given adequate orientations by the library management on internal marketing strategy variable vis a viz public relation in order to promote their service delivery while the parent organization should organize seminars and workshops on regular basis on public relations for the library staff.