Towards an inclusive services provision for the visually-impaired students in Nigeria university libraries
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2025
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Published by Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Plateau State University, Bokkos, Nigeria. Available at: Plasujalis.com/view issues.php?edition_id=vol-2-2-2025
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This study explored library services provided for students who are visually impaired in six University
Libraries in Nigeria to determine their access to facilities and establish their level of satisfaction with
the services they received. Survey designs were employed on purposively selected 104 students.
Questionnaire was used for data collection, and data from the questionnaire were analysed using
frequency counts and percentages. The researchers found out that majority of the visually-impaired
students do not have access at all to many of the facilities and services but were satisfied with the
librarians’ attitude. However, a large number of students were not satisfied with the services and skill
of the librarians in providing services for their research and academic work. The study recommended,
amongst others, that the library administrators should ensure increased and sustainable access to all
relevant facilities to promote and provide an inclusive and equitable library and information services
to the visually-impaired students in Nigeria University Libraries.
Keywords: Provision, library Services, visually-impaired students, university libraries
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Provision, library Services, visually-impaired students, university libraries