JOB SATISFACTION AMONG LIBRARIANS IN UNIVERSITIES IN SOUTH-SOUTH ZONE OF NIGERIA:DEMOGRAPHIC DIFFERENCES

Abstract

Job satisfaction of librarians is considered to be significant, especially in the age where academic libraries must exhibit their worth in their academic environments of information proliferation and when an organization. Hence, the study investigated job satisfaction among librarians in universities in the South-South Zone of Nigeria. It adopted the survey method and made use of librarians in federal and state university libraries. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire adapted from the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ).Data collected were analyzed using Mean (X) and Standard Deviation,z-test and one way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The results revealed that of the six job satisfaction dimensions,librarians in the South-South zone of Nigeria indicated satisfaction in five dimensions. Also, the found no significant difference between demographic characteristics of librarians in the South-South Zone of Nigeria and their job satisfaction.