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ABSTRACT The study examined the influence of administrative indicators on the provision of library services in the University Teaching Hospitals of South-South Nigeria. The study formulated two specific objectives, two research questions and two null hypotheses for the research direction. It used an ex-post facto research design. The study population was 504 library personnel. The sample size was 403 representing the 80 per cent of the target population. The census sampling technique was used in selecting the south-south zones of Nigeria. The instrument developed by the researcher and used for data collection was titled “Administrative Indictors on Provision of Library Services Questionnaire (AIPLSQ), with a reliability coefficient of 0.86 on Cronbach’s Alpha. The data collected were subjected to ANOVA statistics (item by item analyses), which the mean and standard deviation was used to answer the research questions and f-value was used to test the null hypotheses at .05 level of significance. The results indicated significant influence of quality planning and quality staffing of administration on provision of library services in University Teaching Hospitals of South-South Nigeria. The study concluded that proper manipulation of administrative indicators (quality planning and quality staffing) would provide effective library services among Teaching Hospitals in the study area. It was recommended that university teaching hospitals should endeavour to embrace quality planning and quality staffing as management functions in order to run effective administration for higher productivity in the study area. KEY WORDS:Administration, Quality Planning, Quality Staffing, Library Services, University Teaching Hospitals