This study examined funding practices in Nigerian university libraries, guided by three objectives: identifying the primary financiers, determining the percentage of the university's approved recurrent budget allocated to libraries, and exploring additional funding sources. Three research questions focused on the same areas. Data was collected using questionnaires and analyzed through percentages. The findings indicate that university libraries in Nigeria are primarily funded by their parent institutions, yet they are noticeably underfunded. TETFund emerged as an important source of financial support. The study highlights serious funding challenges, calling for urgent interventions. Recommendations include reintroducing the previously withdrawn 10% recurrent grant from universities to their libraries, ensuring strict compliance by Vice-Chancellors, increasing TETFund allocations, and mandating university librarians to submit four-year consecutive library budgets. This would help reduce instances of superficial budgeting by university managements, especially during accreditation exercises, and ensure more sustainable and transparent library funding practices in Nigerian universities.
Agbanu et al. (Wed,) studied this question.