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Ozean Journal of Social Sciences 2(3), 2009process. Majority of the respondents (58.0%) claimed to be highly influenced by sabbatical leave. Moreover, 50.0%indicated that the environmental condition in cataloguing section gave them low motivation towards scholarlypublishing and cataloguing process. Similar claimed were made as regards staffing the cataloguing section (52.0%).However, the need for international recognition had highly encouraged scholarly publishing and cataloguing process.The respondents who claimed to be motivated by this factor were almost one third of t he sampled population (74.0%).DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONThe study revealed that those factors the cataloguers struggled with in their working environments affected performancein research activity in all areas such as in number of publications, how often the research activities were carried out, etc.Publishing as a must provision for academic promotion was seeing as a very great challenge. Challenges of rapidpromotion of colleagues in other departments in the library serve as motivating factors for publishing. But forCataloguing environment, there is no privacy and flexibility for publishing. It was revealed that cataloguers’environmental condition rated low as motivational factors on scholarly publishing. Therefore cataloguing environmentmust promote satisfaction through the infrastructure and standards of the workplace. The structural and hierarchicalorientation of the working environment requires flexibility for publication. Boredom and rigidity as seen in the natureof the daily activities must give way to flexibility, hence achievable and realistic statistics should be set for cataloguers.The need for international recognition is another motivational factor for foreign publication. In an environment whereacademic staff rated low in all libraries consulted it is recommended that cataloguing staff need to be increased toreduce backlog of books and work load; as cataloguers workloads were very distressing. The workloads disturbpublishing both at working hour and after due to fatigue and stress experienced on job. The individual sense ofperformance, well-being and identity as professional librarian and academic staff need be restored through rotationalmethod. The research shows all respondent favour rotation of staff from one section to another. This is revealed asrespondents are all satisfied with monitoring activities and departments’ performance activities, consultancy services asin circulation and references or reader services and other diversity of job responsibilities. Rotational method should beintroduced to aid both research work and cataloguing work; so that professional librarians would be fully equipped andversatile with all areas of library routines. In addition to this, professional librarians could be asked to spend at leasttwo hours every morning for cataloguing work since they are all taught the rudiments of cataloguing in the university.This is the practice in some university library in the southern part of the country. This idea would reduce backlog ofbooks and make materials available for users very fast.Information age mandates cataloguers to process materials urgently, adequately and qualitatively. Cataloguers are inthe position of making meaningful decision for its immediate community and the world at large. The online Cataloguingand cataloguing on the web has improved cataloguers’ work. Books and other materials are processed faster usingappropriate software. Therefore, computerization of cataloguing process is necessary for all cataloguing department inall libraries.RECOMMENDATIONThe library management may desire to partition the cataloguing section for every cataloguer, in a situation whereseparate office is not possible. This will at least provide some privacy and motivate them to work. However thisapproach should be viewed as an interim measure. The permanent solution is to assign some of the carrels in the libraryto them as office. Under this arrangement the cataloguing section will be used as a laboratory while research will bedone in the offices. In a modern library building offices are embedded within the cataloguing department to promoteprivacy and scholarly publication. In addition to this, staff publication can be increased through joint authorship andmentorship. Cataloguers should be able to collaborate on topical issues relevant to their area of research and tolibrarianship in general. Also, senior colleagues should be consulted for possible assistance and mentoring in order tobe well tutored on the nitty-gritty of academic. This becomes imperative because of the pivotal role of research in anacademic setting. Cataloguers have major roles to play in the library and their working environment must be conducivefor research. Research has been defined as a studious inquiry or examination, especially involving investigation or145