Therefore, we recommend that the Library should create more awareness and effective education for students at various levels to ensure maximum utilization of library resources. Hence, students have not been making effective and efficient use of the library OPAC. Therefore, the study concludes that majority of the students used manual catalogues to access library resources due to lack of awareness, skills to use OPAC and problems encountered during usage. Similarly, majority of the respondents lacked information searching skills while lack of awareness, irregular power supply, network failure and inadequacy of computer terminals designated for the use of OPAC were among the problems identified as factors inhibiting the use of library OPAC. The study revealed that 68.7 % of the respondents were aware of the OPAC services students who were aware of the library OPAC and did not use it to access library resources were statistically significant (x2 =82.073 df =2 α = 0.001) 23.8% of the respondents used OPAC independently only 3.2% of the respondents accessed library resources from their hostels, 0.2% access it from homes. Five hundred and twenty copies of the questionnaire was retrieved and used for the study. A questionnaire was distributed to 800 students at various faculties and in different levels of studies in August 2012. This study investigated the awareness and use of Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) by students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. Based on the findings, it was recommended that the library management should develop/implement a policy that will support and guide the use of mobile social media for library services The findings revealed the challenges that faced library staff as lack of mobile social media policy by the management, lack of smart phone, resistance of both staff and students to adopt mobile social media, lack of finance and Lack of training of staff. Facebook was found to be the most used site followed by whatsapp. Facebook, whatsapp, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, were the mobile social media being used by the library staff. The findings of the study revealed that library staff in Rivers state were aware and using mobile social media for personal purposes, sharing and uploading library images and videos but were not using mobile social media for their library services such as updating their library news and events and reference services. 200 copies of questionnaire were retrieved and used for the study. A survey method was adopted with 250 copies of questionnaire distributed to 250 library staff from government higher institutions in Rivers State, Nigeria. The study investigated mobile social media as a facilitator of library services delivery by library staff in Rivers State, Nigeria.
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