Osun State University IKIRE Campus Library, An Abandoned Island Of Knowledge

In the past few weeks, Osun State University campus,Ikire has recorded a very low level of students appearance at the college library. A standard structure which lay at the very extreme left of the campus yard, has been managed by the librarian and other professionals staffs, this well conducive environment is equipped to contain a capacity of about 200 students at a time.

According to the statistics generated by the HISSA press crew after several days of delay as a result of the non teaching academic staff union strike which lasted a week, the team did an objective critical analysis of students that made use of the library between 10th of January to the15th of the same month. The research proved that from the 10th of January 2017 the numbers of attendant on the journal was 18students,on the 11th 59students were recorded,48,34,64 respectively, it totals at 251students,with 400level  having 60% appearance,100level with 30% then 200level and 300level shares 10% respectively.
This statistics however proven to be embarrassing shows how much the reading culture among the college students is at a very minimal level,well it should be noted that understanding comes under the ability of being able to grasp in an atmosphere that creates the best opportunity to explore varieties of scholarly ideas which emanated from the late centuries especially with the  theories and the contemporary.


Being cutaway of this opportunity is not in any way a social problem but the inability of a learner or student to have a self command by being ascetic of knowing what to do with resources that lies around him. There are now urgent calls on students to have a pragmatic and proactive measure towards the way they relate with the institutions that lies around them
In a bid to relate reasons why the university library has become a shrine where students flee from,it was discovered that legacy has lost its cloak of integrity amidst the flag bearers or those I will call the forerunners or ambassadors of great institution.


The fresher’s has been exposed to a world where there are diversities in every sphere of influence, differentiations in ideological beliefs and practicality towards oneself and to the immediate environment this is what could be called the secondary socialization, the school (university) is one of the major secondary institution of socialization which the library cannot be left out as an instrument of socializing.


In essence secondary socializing should come from mainly the 300 and 400level students whom should act as agencies and instrument alongside the library institution. By this collaboration,a clear sense of belonging would spurn within the student for social consciousness which in turn becomes an added value to students academic performance and also a reorientation.


Although there has been lots of complaints regarding the lack of enough materials in the college library which is one of the best amongst the six campus of the university, it is important to note that the school won't see it as something important to equip the library with more materials since they know the students themselves don't patronize it. This is one of the reasons why the agitation for reequipping the library has been a thing of joke especially in the school administration's part.


It’s high time we all recognize our responsibility as a social being in this society and begin to explore what we have and taking advantage of what we posses, what will change us, what will give us the intellectual capability to sit with brains around the world, what will expunge the ignorance in us and awaken the psychological neurons in our brain.

Opeyemi Yusuf Jubril.
HISSA Press.