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ABSTRACT

The quality of temporary signage must be reasonably good. Printed signs on foam-core backing make for acceptable temporary signage; anything on sheets of paper or handwritten is unacceptable. To determine placement, it is helpful to discover through observation where bump points are. No manual can answer these kinds of questions, but careful observation of how people behave at the bump point, combined with consideration of every option; go a long way toward finding the best solution. In this generation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) era, it is difficult to stop students from entering the library with their phones, laptops, tablets, and iPads. But regulatory signage can at best tell students not to make or receive calls within the library. Some of these phones are multifunctional. When students are bored reading, they often switch them on and watch movies. There are also those who come to the library to watch movies on purpose, sometimes in groups, disturbing the peace in the library. These are deviant behaviours associated with modern technology. It puts library personnel on their toes in checkmating these habits in recent times. With regulatory and other signage in academic libraries, student’s deviant behaviour could be controlled and the stress of library personnel to checkmate student’s deviant attitude could also be reduced. This study was able to establish the importance of library signage in students’ utilization of information services in the university libraries. Library signage predicts students’ utilization of information services in the university libraries. Therefore, the identified library signage could form part of the curricular content of education and library and information science in tertiary institutions.

KEYWORDS: Library Signage, Students’ Utilisation, Information Services, University Libraries