Factors Militating Against The Implementations Of Virtual Library Project In Public Colleges Of Education

The position of the ‘child’ education in the educational advancement of the country can never be over-emphasized. Little wonder the interests shown by many state governments in Nigeria in the establishment of secondary schools and college of education for the laying of a solid education base and attaining perfection in contributing for the individual development in particular and helping in solving the problems of the society, and education base for Nigeria’s future educationists in general. Virtual library projects aims at attaining the above objectives of education. Implementation of this libraries projects in the country is a source of concern and hence the authors aimed to investigate the factors militating against the implementation in the public colleges of education in the south east.
Here a stratified random sampling of the respondents was used. The raw scores from the respondents were obtained and analysized with references to the research questions.
The study observed that high cost and inadequate funding is the major factor militating against the effective implementation of virtual library projects in the south east zone. Also observed is that governments of the zone involve themselves only in creating few opportunities for educating, training and retraining of library staff members. They also made some improvements in providing influx of current textbooks, journals, other texts as ways of virtual library services but the students and lecturers have not improved beyond processing information in internets. The study recommended use of special funding packages by both the governments and non-governmental organizations in improving the implementations of virtual library projects in the zone. This will help in focusing on collective acquisitions of hardwares, softwares requirements, electronic resources and databases, virtual classrooms, laboratories instrumentation and staff trainings.