PERCEPTION OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS OF ST. MURUMBA COLLEGE

The study was conducted to evaluate the perception of senior secondary school students of St. Murumba College Jos towards Library and Information Science (LIS) as a profession. This was with the purpose of ascertaining the level of awareness of the students towards LIS as a professional course offered in universities; to find out the attitude of the students towards choosing LIS as a profession and to determine the perception of the students about the places where LIS professionals can work. Based on the objectives three (3) research questions guided the study. A descriptive survey was adopted for the study. No sampling technique was used as it was a census of the senior secondary school students. A total number of one hundred and thirty-nine (139) respondents were used for the study. The instrument used for data collection was questionnaire. One hundred and thirty-nine (139) copies of questionnaires were distributed to the respondents with 97.1% return rate. Frequency table and mean score were used for the data analysis.