The influence of age and work experience on publication output among librarians in Nigerian universities

Abstract

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-US">The influences of age and work experience on publication output among librarians in Nigerian universities were studied. A stratified random sampling method was used to select 278 librarians working in 22 out of the 35 university libraries in Nigeria. One-way analysis of variance statistics (ANOVA) was used to compare librarians from different age and work experience brackets regarding their publication output. The results of empirical analysis indicate that librarians' age and work experience have positive influence on their publication output. The paper, therefore, recommends that librarians who are professionally matured and experienced on the job should be recruited and be given preferential treatment in the work environment to enhance publication productivity. However, the younger and less experienced ones should be encouraged to publish to enhance continuity and knowledge base in the profession.</span>