Al-Hikmah University Journal

Libraries as an organisation is saddled with responsibility of information service delivery this requires that their personnel be above board in job performance.  Several factors influencing job performance of library personnel have been examined by previous studies; however, law library personnel are the least category of library professionals who were hardly researched on. The study therefore examined electronic information resources (EIR) use as correlates of job performance among law library personnel in universities in South-West, Nigeria. The descriptive research design of correlational type was adopted for the study, total enumeration technique was adopted due to small size of 117 law library personnel in the 16 universities offering law courses in South-west, Nigeria. The questionnaire was the main research instrument used for data collection. Data was analysed using frequency distribution; Pearson product moment correlation as well as hierarchical regression, run on SPSS version 20.0. The findings revealed that major types of electronic information resources used by law library personnel in universities in South-West, Nigeria were e-reference sources , law pavilion , e-books and e-journals , the level of EIR use was moderate (mean=61.92), the level of job performance  was moderate and the main purpose for which law library personnel used EIRs was to enhance job performance by meeting user needs (mean =1.6521; STD=0.40175). The findings further revealed that a strong positive significant relationship exists between EIR use and Job performance (r=0.621, p<0.05) of law library personnel in universities in South-West, Nigeria. The study recommended that ICT skills and EIR use of law library personnel in universities could be enhanced by providing adequate facilities and conducive environment through periodic training in order to enhance their job performance.