Abstract
Teaching hospital medical libraries exist for
rendering information services to health personnel and students studying
medical courses. This is because it is very essentialfor such libraries to
provide current and relevant health information resources that will enlighten
the medical personnel thereby keeping them abreast of new developments and
researches in the health sector. Two research objectives cum questions and
research hypotheses guided the study. It gave an insight on infertility and
most likely causes. It also highlighted some of the treatments to combat it and
then the information resources as well as the medical librarians' role in
combating it Literature on infertility, medical library and as well measures to
combat infertility was also reviewed. A population of 4425 medical library
users from the 8 teaching hospital medical libraries in the 5 States ofSouth
East zone of Nigeria made up the study. Ofthe 885 ofthem sampled using census
sampling technique, 618 responded adequately to the instrument Analysis was
made using mean scores and standard deviation. It was revealed that both the
federal and state teaching hospital medical libraries provide current and
relevant infertility combating information resources to their clients.
Recommendations were made based on thefindings.
EDWARD, A (2024). Currency and Relevancy of Reproductive Information Resources: A Focus on Teaching Hospital Medical Libraries in South East Nigeria:- Edward Amadi. Mouau.afribary.org: Retrieved Dec 21, 2024, from https://repository.mouau.edu.ng/work/view/currency-and-relevancy-of-reproductive-information-resources-a-focus-on-teaching-hospital-medical-libraries-in-south-east-nigeria-edward-amadi-7-2
AMADI, EDWARD. "Currency and Relevancy of Reproductive Information Resources: A Focus on Teaching Hospital Medical Libraries in South East Nigeria:- Edward Amadi" Mouau.afribary.org. Mouau.afribary.org, 06 Aug. 2024, https://repository.mouau.edu.ng/work/view/currency-and-relevancy-of-reproductive-information-resources-a-focus-on-teaching-hospital-medical-libraries-in-south-east-nigeria-edward-amadi-7-2. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
AMADI, EDWARD. "Currency and Relevancy of Reproductive Information Resources: A Focus on Teaching Hospital Medical Libraries in South East Nigeria:- Edward Amadi". Mouau.afribary.org, Mouau.afribary.org, 06 Aug. 2024. Web. 21 Dec. 2024. < https://repository.mouau.edu.ng/work/view/currency-and-relevancy-of-reproductive-information-resources-a-focus-on-teaching-hospital-medical-libraries-in-south-east-nigeria-edward-amadi-7-2 >.
AMADI, EDWARD. "Currency and Relevancy of Reproductive Information Resources: A Focus on Teaching Hospital Medical Libraries in South East Nigeria:- Edward Amadi" Mouau.afribary.org (2024). Accessed 21 Dec. 2024. https://repository.mouau.edu.ng/work/view/currency-and-relevancy-of-reproductive-information-resources-a-focus-on-teaching-hospital-medical-libraries-in-south-east-nigeria-edward-amadi-7-2