Utilization of hospital library by health workers in a tertiary health institution in Ilorin, Kwara State

The task of providing quality health care services require the use of current health information; and hospital library seems to be the most appropriate source of organized and well articulated information for health workers. This descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out between January and June 2003 to determine the use of hospital library by health workers at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital with a view to generating data that can be used to improve the services and make the library more user friendly to the health workers. Analysis of 280 questionnaires returned by consenting health workers selected through simple random sampling showed that 244(87%) of the respondents used the library, and a significant proportion of the Doctors were found to use the library facilities more than any group of health professionals (p valu