Assessment of School Library Resources in Public Secondary Schools in Ilorin Metropolis

This paper examined the School library Resources in Ilorin Metropolis. The study looked at resources available in all school libraries in terms of School Libraries facilities and furniture, print and non- print resources and human resources available in the library. The research type used was descriptive survey. The sample consisted of 38 school libraries from public secondary schools in Ilorin Metropolis. Checklist known as ‘Library Resource Checklist’ was developed and used to elicit responses from Librarian in charge of each school in all sample schools. Four research questions were generated and tested to guide the conduct of the study. Frequency count and percentages were used to analyse the data collected and thus answered the research questions. The results of findings revealed that, majority of the available facilities and furniture to use the library resources did not meet the required standard. More so, print and non-print resources were insufficient but the majority of available resources were of good qualities. There were twelve professional librarians and seventeen qualified teacher librarians in the school libraries in Ilorin Metropolis. It was recommended that Governments (Federal, State and Local) should release funds to build standard libraries, recruit more professional librarians and produce more non-print resources in all school libraries in Ilorin Metropolis.