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Quest Journals
Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Science
Volume 5 ~ Issue 6 (2017) pp.: 34-41
ISSN(Online) : 2321-9467
www.questjournals.org
*Corresponding Author:Wilfred Jeyatheese Jeyaraj 34 | Page
Eastern University, Sri Lanka
Research Paper
Job Satisfaction Level of Teacher Librarians of National Schools
in the Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka
Wilfred Jeyatheese Jeyaraj
Eastern University, Sri Lanka
Received 05 June, 2017; Accepted 13 June, 2017 © The author(s) 2017. Published with open access
at www.questjournals.org
ABSTRACT: Knowledge has been propagated through various means and modes throughout the pages in
history. Revolutionizing with time, it was concentrated into a single repository called the library. The libraries
have now turned out to be the primal store of materialized and virtual knowledge sources. With knowledge
being disseminated to humans from a very early stage in life, a school library takes the supreme position. But
theteacher librarians working at School libraries have displayed discontent and diminishing job satisfaction.
Hence, this research tends to analyze the omni various causes, constraints and propose solutions to the issues
faced by Teacher Librarians at these school libraries. In order to accomplish this, the sample was taken as the
National Schools in the Batticaloa district of Sri Lanka where the librarians from these school libraries were
observed and given questionnaires. The study revealed the root cause for the lack of job satisfaction to be the
dual functioning Teacher Librarians employed to serve as school librarians as well. Based on this revealing
factor, attributes affecting the job satisfaction of teacher librarians were drafted and scaled to analyze and
contemplate credible ways to overcome this situation to attain job satisfaction further via this study.
Keywords:Job Satisfaction, Teacher Librarian, National Schools, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
I. INTRODUCTION
Education is a portal towards an escalation in the future. This escalation affects the social, physical and
economical spheres in life. Education can be provided through many different sources, to various demographic
groups, during different stages in their lifecycle. As such, dissemination of knowledge needs to be considered as
a focal point or the source as its importance is stressed. Building up a society that has a rich knowledge base and
is literate, provides means of shrinking the ever present Digital Divide which is a current and major issue
pursuing all nations with technology being a dominant educational and communicative source[1]
. This gap or
divide between those who have access to technology and those who do not also in turn deprives equal education
to the society without partiality..
Hence living in this technologically advancing world, transmission of education
to the future generations in the proper forms and methodologies is vital and needs to be viewed as a top priority
check list item.
Considering the various sources of education, many subjects interviewed have unfailingly stated
websites, e-books, web forums, trivia quizzes and such similar online virtual presence as their prime source of
knowledge. But what this research focuses majorly on is the most traditional mode of knowledge from which
children gain their early knowledge during their schools days: the school library - especially in Sri Lankan
government schools where, virtual, technology based education has still not caught up. This has left these school
environments to retain their conventional classroom-library resource based teaching-learning experience. A
school library is mainly aimed towards helping various stakeholders within a school environment such as
academic staff, non-academic staff and students to reap new knowledge, abilities and adaptabilities in order to
enhance their self-development [2]
. The proper functioning of a library‟s various processes such as
acquisition,cataloguing, circulation, and public access depend on all of the stakeholders involved in both
enhancing their personality as well as improving the library. But most of all the library staff, who continually
attach their duties towards the library‟s functioning, make sure that it keeps on going as intended. But a well-
experimented fact reveals that the target study demographic which was taken as the national school libraries
within the Batticaloa district in Sri Lanka is beginning to fail as a successful information propagation hub within
those schools. Further analysis of the root cause and unsupportive features that are leading towards the downfall
Job Satisfaction Level of Teacher Librarians of National Schools in the Batticaloa District of Sri ..
*Corresponding Author:Wilfred Jeyatheese Jeyaraj 35 | Page
of a library as the educational repository in schools, point towards the inconvincible issues faced by the library
staff in these school libraries.
II. PROBLEM STATEMENT
One of the major issues that school libraries have, dictate the lack of dedicated library staff members
trained to function fully towards the library processes. An indication of teacher librarians working with dual
duties of performing classroom teaching and library responsibilities was revealed. This deprived them from
focusing fully on either one of their responsibilities, depriving them from specializing in either one of these job
accountabilities. This has bred a job discontent within teacher librarians in the national schools in the Batticaloa
district of Sri Lanka. Teaching is a process that requires preparation to expedite study materials to students, the
following day. Being a librarian necessitates the librarian to aid the users find information and perform research
for personal and professional requirements. Both of these job roles require the occupant to be fully involved in
the sole career to achieve utmost job satisfaction. Cross-functioning between the two roles might bring about
schedule overlaps, stress, overdue work and heterogeneous interactions skill development.
Most of the national schools within the Batticaloa district considered as the sample, rendered out to
have employed teachers as the librarians, grading them as teacher librarians. To move further on to the study,
the impact and level of success achieved via this type of employment was identified by questioning the teacher
librarians from which their rate of job satisfaction was contemplated. This study revealed that most of these
teacher librarians face major issues in their career as a teacher librarian. The crisis was analyzed by breaking
down the problem into the root, supporting causes, constraints and plausible solutions.
Obviously, the root cause was straight forward as many subjects stated that cross functioning two roles
that are incoherent, embedded a strenuous schedule as well as stress on their daily routine at work. Needing to
solve the issues from both fields had no interrelation and this established a situation of solving entirely different
problematic issues. Hence this tedious issue mentioned by the teacher librarians was considered as a prime
factor for the research and analysis was carried out to diminish this by identifying viable solutions to the matter
at hand based on the causes and constraints.
III. LITERATURE REVIEW
Layering Teacher Librarians in Sri Lanka, Herring (2005) has clearly outlined the qualifications school
librarians should possess, the skills they should acquire during their professional education and the training
prerequisitesobligatory after obtaining the necessary qualifications [3]
. In some cases, school librarians also have
a teaching qualification. The term "Teacher Librarian", "Library Teacher" or "Resource Person In-Charge" or
"Library Instructor" are four terms that could be used inter-changeably. Herring (2006), noted that little attention
has been given to the educational qualifications, which school librarians should have[4]
. Currently in Sri Lanka,
the teacher librarians' qualifications adhere to specifications agreed upon in the new library development
programme and established teacher librarian profession. The teacher librarian must have dual qualifications as a
teacher as well as a librarian. The arguments for dual qualifications include the actual teaching roles now
undertaken by many school librarians, especially in the areas of information skills and information.Kimmel
(2012) observed that teacher librarians should ensure many personal qualities. She added that, their personal
accountability towards their occupation,unswervingly affects the progression of the school library[5]
.
In the literature review, Khaleque& Rahman (1987)[6]
and Alam et al. (2005) identified that most of the
job facets influenced the level of job satisfaction[7]
. On the other hand, Rahman, (1989) also investigated that not
only the job facets but also job stress influenced the job satisfaction of the employees[8]
. Therefore, Ashraf et al.
(2010) highlighted on some dependent variables such as carrier growth, training and development,
professionals‟ appraisal and company loyalty, where all sustain a close liaisonwith job satisfaction[9]
. However,
Rahman (1989) studied the level of job satisfaction on the basis of some factors which are: self-actualization,
inquisitiveness factors, aesthetic factors and comparison factors.
Karim et.al (2012) describes different background variables namely age, gender, level of education,
marital status, institutions pay, promotion, working conditions, co-workers, job status, job security, recognition
andsupervision[10]
.It was observed that salary, status and organizational milieus greatly influenced the level of
job satisfaction of the Teacher Librarians in the country. In accumulation to such a negative backdrop, the
proportion ofstudies on job satisfaction among Teacher Librarians in Sri Lanka is extremely negligible.
There is a vastprospect to do ground-breaking research in this arena which will be of colossal
significance to Teacher Librarians in figuring out the actual scenario in Sri Lanka. So, it is significant to identify
the level of job satisfaction among Teacher Librarians of National Schools in the Batticaloa District which will
be more effective for the library professionals in the country.
Job Satisfaction Level of Teacher Librarians of National Schools in the Batticaloa District of Sri ..
*Corresponding Author:Wilfred Jeyatheese Jeyaraj 36 | Page
IV. OBJECTIVES OF STUDY
The objectives of this study are:
- To measure the level of job satisfaction among Teacher Librarians of National Schools in the
Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka.
- To reveal how the job facets affect the job satisfaction of Teacher Librarians.
- To recommend a proper guideline to improve the level of job satisfaction of Teacher Librarians.
V. METHODOLOGY
5.1 DESIGN
The Descriptive type survey method was identified to study the problem.
5.2 STUDY AREA
There are four educational zones such as Paddiruppu, Batticaloa, Batticaloa Central and Kalkudah in the
Batticaloa District in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka and there are ten National Schools coming under the
governance of the Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka at present as shown in the Table 1.
Table 1 – Educational Zones and the National Schools List
01 Paddiruppu Educational Zone (i) Paddiruppu Madhya MahaVidyalayam, Kaluwanchikudy
02 Batticaloa Educational Zone (ii) St. Cecilia‟s Girls‟ College, Batticaloa
(iii) St. Michael‟s College, Batticaloa
(iv) Vincent Girls‟ High School, Batticaloa
(v) ShivanandhaVidyalayam, Batticaloa
03 Batticaloa Central Educational Zone (vi) MeeraBalikaNational School, Kattankudy
(vii) Kattankudy Central College, Kattankudy
(viii) Alighar Central College, Eravur
(ix) Oddamavadi Central College, Oddamavadi
(x) Valaichenai An-Noor MahaVidyalayam, Valaichenai
04 Kalkudah Educational Zone No National Schools at present
5.2.1 SAMPLE SELECTION
Since there are eight Teacher Librarians and two other personnel who are employed to perform a dedicated
Teacher Librarian‟s responsibilities attached to the above National Schools in the Batticaloa District of Sri
Lanka,the sampling method which was used in analyzing this kind of a problem was the “Total Population
Sampling” which is a type of Purposive Sampling Technique.
5.3 DATA COLLECTION METHOD AND ANALYSIS
The structured questionnaires played an important part in data collection and the questionnaire consisted of the
following two sections. The observation of the researcher was also used to study the problem.
Structure of the questionnaire :
Part I – Personal Information
Part II – Statements for dimensional evaluation
The distribution of statements for dimensional evaluation is as shown in Table 2.
Table 2 – Distribution of statements for dimensional evaluation
Dimensions No. of Statements
Job oriented (i) Suitability of academic and professional qualifications
(ii) Ability to bridge the gap between information and the school community
(iii) Freedom to work in the library
(iv) Task balance – Teacher plus Librarian
Training & Promotion (v) Pre-Training and Post Training opportunities
(vi) Provision of study leaves for professional training
(vii) The level to which the training gained, helps to get promotions
Management (viii) Implementation of Ministry policies at School library
(ix) Supportive Management Team
(x) Space given for decision making
(xi) Efficiency of Library Committee appointed
Work Environment (xii) Work atmosphere
(xiii) Suitability of the present location of school library
(xiv) Sufficiency of Human resources specified to assist
Remuneration (xv) Competiveness of salary pay with other library professionals
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(xvi) Sufficient pay to Teacher plus Librarian
(xvii) Additional allowances for after-school-hours duties at the school library
Colleagues & Subordinates (xviii) Cooperative and friendly colleagues
(xix) Efficiency of library assistants / attendants
The respondents were asked to respond with theattitudes scale as given below, to each statement.
Strongly Disagree -1, Disagree – 2, Undecided – 3, Agree – 4andStrongly Agree - 5
According to the scale values indicated in the questionnaire, the Mean value for each statement was calculated.
VI. DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS
Since the researcher interacted with each and every Teacher Librarian to get the data, the total number
of ten which is a 100%of sample group members responded. Out of ten Teacher Librarians, 70% were Females
while only 30% ofthe Teacher Librarians were Males. As far as the age range of Teacher Librariansis
concerned, 20% were found to be in the 51-60 age range, 10% were in the 41-50 age range, 50% laid in the age
range of 31-40 while the remaining 20% of Teacher librarians were youngstersranging from 21-30.
6.1 REPRESENTATION OF DIMENSIONAL STATEMENTS
According to the responses received from the sample group, the following results shown in Table 3 were
identified.
Table 3 –Representation of Dimensional Statements
Statements
Strongly
Disagree
Disagree Undecided Agree
Strongly
Agree
Mean
Std.
Dev.
Level of
Satisfaction
1. Suitability with
Academic Qualifications 0% 0% 0% 60% 40% 4.4 0.5164 High
2. Bridging the Gap - Info
& School Community 0% 0% 0% 100% 0% 4.5 0.527 High
3. Freedom to work 7% 7% 0% 43% 43% 3.7 1.2517 High
4 Task Balance- Teacher
plus Librarian 22% 22% 11% 44% 0% 3 1.4142 Moderate
5. Pre-Training & Post-
Training Opportunities 10% 30% 0% 60% 0% 3.1 1.1972 Moderate
6. Provision for study
leave - Academic Training 40% 20% 10% 30% 0% 2.3 1.3375 Low
7. Training gained helps in
promotions 60% 30% 10% 0% 0% 1.5 0.7071 Low
8.Implementation of
Policies at library 40% 20% 20% 20% 0% 2.2 1.2293 Low
9. Supportive Management
Team 11% 44% 11% 33% 0% 2.9 1.2867 Moderate
10. Space given for
decision making 22% 22% 0% 56% 0% 3.1 1.4491 Moderate
11. Efficiency of Library
Committee 10% 50% 20% 20% 0% 2.5 0.9718 Low
12. Work Atmosphere 13% 25% 0% 63% 0% 3.5 1.354 Moderate
13. Location of School
Library 11% 11% 0% 78% 0% 3.6 1.1738 High
14. Sufficiency of Library
Assistants/Attendants 29% 43% 0% 29% 0% 3.1 1.6633 Moderate
15.Competitive payment 70% 20% 10% 0% 0% 1.4 0.6992 Low
16. Pay for dual Task -
Teacher plus Librarian 22% 33% 0% 44% 0% 2.9 1.4491 Moderate
17. Additional allowances
after school hours 70% 30% 0% 0% 0% 1.3 0.483 Low
18. Cooperative &
Friendly Colleagues 0% 33% 11% 56% 0% 3.4 1.075 Moderate
19. Efficiency of Library
Assistants/Attendants 22% 33% 0% 44% 0% 2.9 1.4491 Moderate
The Six research dimensional variables which consist of nineteen total numbers of statements indicated
collectively each and every variable of the satisfactory level of Teacher Librarians in the National Schools in the
Batticaloa District, Sri Lanka. Accordingly, the level of satisfaction with the „Job oriented‟ variable is high as
the mean value 3.9 falls above the range of mean value 3.5 < X <5. Likewise the other variables such as
“Training & Promotion”, “Management”, “Work Environment”, “Remuneration” and “Colleagues &
Subordinates” show the satisfactory level of Teacher librarians as „Low”, “Moderate”, “Moderate”, “Low”, and
“Moderate” respectively according to the mean values shown in Table 4 and the percentages of Satisfactory
level of each variable are represented in Figure 1.
Job Satisfaction Level of Teacher Librarians of National Schools in the Batticaloa District of Sri ..
*Corresponding Author:Wilfred Jeyatheese Jeyaraj 38 | Page
Table 4 – Satisfactory Level across Six Variables
Percentages of Satisfactory Levels of Teacher Librarians
JobOriented
Training&
Promotion
Management
WorkEnvironment
Remuneration
Colleagues&
Subordinates
Range of
Mean
Value
1 < X < 2.5
Low level
10% 60% 50% 20% 70% 40%
2.5 < X < 3.5
Moderate Level
30% 30% 30% 30% 30% 10%
3.5 < X < 5
High Level
60% 10% 20% 50% 0% 50%
Mean Value 3.9 2.3 2.7 3.4 1.9 3.1
Standard Deviation 0.8433 0.9994 1.1729 1,2939 0.8043 1.2259
Level of Satisfaction High Low Moderate Moderate Low Moderate
Fig. 1 - Satisfactory Level across Six Variables
6.2 OVERALL ANALYSIS
The study which was carried out with the objective to measure the level of job satisfaction of Teacher librarians
of national schools revealed the results as shown in Table 5 and Figure 2.
Table 5 – Overall Analysis with the total research dimensions
According to the above illustration, there are 40% of Teacher Librarians who are not satisfied with the whole
facets related to the Job they were recruited for while only 30% of the whole sample reacts at a High
Satisfactory level. The remaining 30% of the whole sample group of Teacher librarians show their moderate
level of satisfaction in this regard.
Range of Mean Value Satisfactory Levels
No. of Teacher
Librarians
Percentage
1 < X < 2.5 Low Level 04 40%
2.5 < X < 3.5 Moderate Level 03 30%
3.5 < X < 5 High Level 03 30%
Sample Size 10 100%
Mean 2.9
Standard Deviation 1.0314
Satisfactory Level Moderate Level of Satisfaction
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Fig. 2 -Overall Analysis with the total research dimensions
Based on the data analysis, the job satisfaction level of Teacher librarians of National Schools in the Batticaloa
District of Sri Lanka is at a ‘Moderate level of satisfaction’ as the mean value 2.9 falls between the range of
mean value 2.5 < X <3.5 with the standard deviation of 1.0314.
VII. CONSTRAINTS AFFECTING JOB PLEASURE
There were several restraints identified to be affecting the job satisfaction among teacher librarians. These
ranged from personally culpable issues to administrative faults and failures. Compressing the trivial limitations,
the foremost constraints have been elucidated here.
7.1 Financial restrictions from the administrative unit
One of the influential considerations that affected a school‟s decision in employing its teachers as
librarians revolved around the financial basis. Salary payment to a dedicated librarian was drafted against a
teacher-requested-as-a-librarian. The difference between the paycheck numbers crunched the decision soon and
strong leaving the administration with compelling financial digits to resolve towards having teacher librarians
instead of dedicated hired staff for the library. Hence, the teacher librarians have to oversee two different job
roles, responsibilities and standards which enforce additional pressure and hassle at their work place excluding
them from attaining privileges in job specialization.
7.2 Lack of specialized training
Secondly, libraries now a days have transformed from mere paperback books and tangible cataloguing
sources to digitized forms. Digital databases are available to maintain Meta data about the library‟s materialistic
resources as well as tracking information for the circulation process of the library including its users‟
information and dates of transaction. But having teacher librarians working in such libraries has become less and
less practical considering the fact that most of these teachers have very little computer literacy. Manipulating
and managing data on these databases to retrieve vital user and resource based information requires an in-depth
computer literacy in the related field. But the investigated teacher demographic functioning as librarians in the
considered sample group claimed to have no computer literacy, let alone, the ability to maintain database
centered information. Training these teachers to manipulate technological devices in order to fulfill their
librarian functionalities seemed nearly impossible with the hectic work schedules imposed as a teacher and a
librarian simultaneously. Hence, these teachers go straight into functioning as non-trained librarians and begin
to struggle in handling the massive amount of data flowing in and out of the library.
7.3 Unmanageable schedules
Teacher librarians need to be drafted with special schedules in order to cope with the two different
tasks that they perform within a school and internally, its library. But due to the lack of understanding and
proper scheduling, these teacher librarians have been imposed with impractical schedules that rule them out
from having a relaxed work routine. Instead, they have been dictated to teach and manage library
responsibilities in a rotation without due consideration about human work standards.
Teaching itself requires a strenuous time plan. During this period, another substitute needs to be
capable and on standby to fill in for the librarians‟ duties. But due to the deficiency of proper planning, the
administrative units of such schools have not considered proper substitute facilities or minimal teaching hours to
supplement the teacher librarians‟ task list.
This ultimately places the teacher librarians to congest their downtime to countenance more time to
perform their alternate responsibility. This leaves them at a place where they develop stress and hatred towards
Not
Satisfied
level
40%
Moderate
level
30%
Satisfied
level
30%
OVERALL EVALUATION
OF JOB SATISFACTION
Job Satisfaction Level of Teacher Librarians of National Schools in the Batticaloa District of Sri ..
*Corresponding Author:Wilfred Jeyatheese Jeyaraj 40 | Page
their job bringing them to degrade their job satisfaction. Most of them have even stated to consider changing
their career due to this mind-numbing situation that they had to hustle between.These are only a few major
constraints that were identified. Based on these constraints the issue can be elucidated and diminished further.
VIII. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
The national development is based on the number of skillful workers and their real commitment and
dedication towards their work which they are attached to. Therefore the government and private sectors set their
own schemes to recruit the employees to reach their goal and reap optimal benefits. The Teacher librarians are
not exceptional. A school library is a knowledge hub, the heart of the entire school and it plays a vital role in
enhancing knowledge and wisdom among the school community. The Teacher librarians who manage these
libraries must be happy and satisfied related to their job in order to plan, organize, lead and control as library
managers. But the study revealed that the teacher librarians attached to the National schools in the Batticaloa
district of Sri Lanka are not happy and the output that the school expects from them is not properly rendered in
vain.
Therefore the teacher librarians must be encouraged and motivated to uplift their work career as well as
to enhance the library information services among the school community. Otherwise the aim and objectives of
the school libraries will fail in fulfilling the needs of the school community.
8.1 RECOMMENTATIONS
 The proper recognition should be given to the Teacher Librarians by the Ministry of Education and the
School Management.
 The physical structural set up of the school library must possess an environmentally friendly atmosphere to
the Teacher librarians.
 Sufficient number of Library Assistants and the Attendants who are very efficient must be recruited and
appointed in the school libraries to assist the Teacher librarians.
 More and more training programmes related to the IT based library tasks should be provided to the Teacher
librarians to uplift their knowledge.
 A flexible time table needs to be drafted for Teacher Librarians to give more time to serve in the school
libraries.
 The library committee members must be library lovers and must have an enthusiasm to develop the school
library.
 The management team should provide all necessary equipment, furniture, information materials and
facilities on time to run the library in a smooth way.
Since the school community depends on the school libraries to fulfill their information thirst, the school
libraries must be organized well. The Teacher librarians who manage the school libraries should be motivated
and made happy and peaceful to get the optimal output and services from them.
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Job Satisfaction Level of Teacher Librarians of National Schools in the Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka

  • 1. Quest Journals Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Science Volume 5 ~ Issue 6 (2017) pp.: 34-41 ISSN(Online) : 2321-9467 www.questjournals.org *Corresponding Author:Wilfred Jeyatheese Jeyaraj 34 | Page Eastern University, Sri Lanka Research Paper Job Satisfaction Level of Teacher Librarians of National Schools in the Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka Wilfred Jeyatheese Jeyaraj Eastern University, Sri Lanka Received 05 June, 2017; Accepted 13 June, 2017 © The author(s) 2017. Published with open access at www.questjournals.org ABSTRACT: Knowledge has been propagated through various means and modes throughout the pages in history. Revolutionizing with time, it was concentrated into a single repository called the library. The libraries have now turned out to be the primal store of materialized and virtual knowledge sources. With knowledge being disseminated to humans from a very early stage in life, a school library takes the supreme position. But theteacher librarians working at School libraries have displayed discontent and diminishing job satisfaction. Hence, this research tends to analyze the omni various causes, constraints and propose solutions to the issues faced by Teacher Librarians at these school libraries. In order to accomplish this, the sample was taken as the National Schools in the Batticaloa district of Sri Lanka where the librarians from these school libraries were observed and given questionnaires. The study revealed the root cause for the lack of job satisfaction to be the dual functioning Teacher Librarians employed to serve as school librarians as well. Based on this revealing factor, attributes affecting the job satisfaction of teacher librarians were drafted and scaled to analyze and contemplate credible ways to overcome this situation to attain job satisfaction further via this study. Keywords:Job Satisfaction, Teacher Librarian, National Schools, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka I. INTRODUCTION Education is a portal towards an escalation in the future. This escalation affects the social, physical and economical spheres in life. Education can be provided through many different sources, to various demographic groups, during different stages in their lifecycle. As such, dissemination of knowledge needs to be considered as a focal point or the source as its importance is stressed. Building up a society that has a rich knowledge base and is literate, provides means of shrinking the ever present Digital Divide which is a current and major issue pursuing all nations with technology being a dominant educational and communicative source[1] . This gap or divide between those who have access to technology and those who do not also in turn deprives equal education to the society without partiality.. Hence living in this technologically advancing world, transmission of education to the future generations in the proper forms and methodologies is vital and needs to be viewed as a top priority check list item. Considering the various sources of education, many subjects interviewed have unfailingly stated websites, e-books, web forums, trivia quizzes and such similar online virtual presence as their prime source of knowledge. But what this research focuses majorly on is the most traditional mode of knowledge from which children gain their early knowledge during their schools days: the school library - especially in Sri Lankan government schools where, virtual, technology based education has still not caught up. This has left these school environments to retain their conventional classroom-library resource based teaching-learning experience. A school library is mainly aimed towards helping various stakeholders within a school environment such as academic staff, non-academic staff and students to reap new knowledge, abilities and adaptabilities in order to enhance their self-development [2] . The proper functioning of a library‟s various processes such as acquisition,cataloguing, circulation, and public access depend on all of the stakeholders involved in both enhancing their personality as well as improving the library. But most of all the library staff, who continually attach their duties towards the library‟s functioning, make sure that it keeps on going as intended. But a well- experimented fact reveals that the target study demographic which was taken as the national school libraries within the Batticaloa district in Sri Lanka is beginning to fail as a successful information propagation hub within those schools. Further analysis of the root cause and unsupportive features that are leading towards the downfall
  • 2. Job Satisfaction Level of Teacher Librarians of National Schools in the Batticaloa District of Sri .. *Corresponding Author:Wilfred Jeyatheese Jeyaraj 35 | Page of a library as the educational repository in schools, point towards the inconvincible issues faced by the library staff in these school libraries. II. PROBLEM STATEMENT One of the major issues that school libraries have, dictate the lack of dedicated library staff members trained to function fully towards the library processes. An indication of teacher librarians working with dual duties of performing classroom teaching and library responsibilities was revealed. This deprived them from focusing fully on either one of their responsibilities, depriving them from specializing in either one of these job accountabilities. This has bred a job discontent within teacher librarians in the national schools in the Batticaloa district of Sri Lanka. Teaching is a process that requires preparation to expedite study materials to students, the following day. Being a librarian necessitates the librarian to aid the users find information and perform research for personal and professional requirements. Both of these job roles require the occupant to be fully involved in the sole career to achieve utmost job satisfaction. Cross-functioning between the two roles might bring about schedule overlaps, stress, overdue work and heterogeneous interactions skill development. Most of the national schools within the Batticaloa district considered as the sample, rendered out to have employed teachers as the librarians, grading them as teacher librarians. To move further on to the study, the impact and level of success achieved via this type of employment was identified by questioning the teacher librarians from which their rate of job satisfaction was contemplated. This study revealed that most of these teacher librarians face major issues in their career as a teacher librarian. The crisis was analyzed by breaking down the problem into the root, supporting causes, constraints and plausible solutions. Obviously, the root cause was straight forward as many subjects stated that cross functioning two roles that are incoherent, embedded a strenuous schedule as well as stress on their daily routine at work. Needing to solve the issues from both fields had no interrelation and this established a situation of solving entirely different problematic issues. Hence this tedious issue mentioned by the teacher librarians was considered as a prime factor for the research and analysis was carried out to diminish this by identifying viable solutions to the matter at hand based on the causes and constraints. III. LITERATURE REVIEW Layering Teacher Librarians in Sri Lanka, Herring (2005) has clearly outlined the qualifications school librarians should possess, the skills they should acquire during their professional education and the training prerequisitesobligatory after obtaining the necessary qualifications [3] . In some cases, school librarians also have a teaching qualification. The term "Teacher Librarian", "Library Teacher" or "Resource Person In-Charge" or "Library Instructor" are four terms that could be used inter-changeably. Herring (2006), noted that little attention has been given to the educational qualifications, which school librarians should have[4] . Currently in Sri Lanka, the teacher librarians' qualifications adhere to specifications agreed upon in the new library development programme and established teacher librarian profession. The teacher librarian must have dual qualifications as a teacher as well as a librarian. The arguments for dual qualifications include the actual teaching roles now undertaken by many school librarians, especially in the areas of information skills and information.Kimmel (2012) observed that teacher librarians should ensure many personal qualities. She added that, their personal accountability towards their occupation,unswervingly affects the progression of the school library[5] . In the literature review, Khaleque& Rahman (1987)[6] and Alam et al. (2005) identified that most of the job facets influenced the level of job satisfaction[7] . On the other hand, Rahman, (1989) also investigated that not only the job facets but also job stress influenced the job satisfaction of the employees[8] . Therefore, Ashraf et al. (2010) highlighted on some dependent variables such as carrier growth, training and development, professionals‟ appraisal and company loyalty, where all sustain a close liaisonwith job satisfaction[9] . However, Rahman (1989) studied the level of job satisfaction on the basis of some factors which are: self-actualization, inquisitiveness factors, aesthetic factors and comparison factors. Karim et.al (2012) describes different background variables namely age, gender, level of education, marital status, institutions pay, promotion, working conditions, co-workers, job status, job security, recognition andsupervision[10] .It was observed that salary, status and organizational milieus greatly influenced the level of job satisfaction of the Teacher Librarians in the country. In accumulation to such a negative backdrop, the proportion ofstudies on job satisfaction among Teacher Librarians in Sri Lanka is extremely negligible. There is a vastprospect to do ground-breaking research in this arena which will be of colossal significance to Teacher Librarians in figuring out the actual scenario in Sri Lanka. So, it is significant to identify the level of job satisfaction among Teacher Librarians of National Schools in the Batticaloa District which will be more effective for the library professionals in the country.
  • 3. Job Satisfaction Level of Teacher Librarians of National Schools in the Batticaloa District of Sri .. *Corresponding Author:Wilfred Jeyatheese Jeyaraj 36 | Page IV. OBJECTIVES OF STUDY The objectives of this study are: - To measure the level of job satisfaction among Teacher Librarians of National Schools in the Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka. - To reveal how the job facets affect the job satisfaction of Teacher Librarians. - To recommend a proper guideline to improve the level of job satisfaction of Teacher Librarians. V. METHODOLOGY 5.1 DESIGN The Descriptive type survey method was identified to study the problem. 5.2 STUDY AREA There are four educational zones such as Paddiruppu, Batticaloa, Batticaloa Central and Kalkudah in the Batticaloa District in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka and there are ten National Schools coming under the governance of the Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka at present as shown in the Table 1. Table 1 – Educational Zones and the National Schools List 01 Paddiruppu Educational Zone (i) Paddiruppu Madhya MahaVidyalayam, Kaluwanchikudy 02 Batticaloa Educational Zone (ii) St. Cecilia‟s Girls‟ College, Batticaloa (iii) St. Michael‟s College, Batticaloa (iv) Vincent Girls‟ High School, Batticaloa (v) ShivanandhaVidyalayam, Batticaloa 03 Batticaloa Central Educational Zone (vi) MeeraBalikaNational School, Kattankudy (vii) Kattankudy Central College, Kattankudy (viii) Alighar Central College, Eravur (ix) Oddamavadi Central College, Oddamavadi (x) Valaichenai An-Noor MahaVidyalayam, Valaichenai 04 Kalkudah Educational Zone No National Schools at present 5.2.1 SAMPLE SELECTION Since there are eight Teacher Librarians and two other personnel who are employed to perform a dedicated Teacher Librarian‟s responsibilities attached to the above National Schools in the Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka,the sampling method which was used in analyzing this kind of a problem was the “Total Population Sampling” which is a type of Purposive Sampling Technique. 5.3 DATA COLLECTION METHOD AND ANALYSIS The structured questionnaires played an important part in data collection and the questionnaire consisted of the following two sections. The observation of the researcher was also used to study the problem. Structure of the questionnaire : Part I – Personal Information Part II – Statements for dimensional evaluation The distribution of statements for dimensional evaluation is as shown in Table 2. Table 2 – Distribution of statements for dimensional evaluation Dimensions No. of Statements Job oriented (i) Suitability of academic and professional qualifications (ii) Ability to bridge the gap between information and the school community (iii) Freedom to work in the library (iv) Task balance – Teacher plus Librarian Training & Promotion (v) Pre-Training and Post Training opportunities (vi) Provision of study leaves for professional training (vii) The level to which the training gained, helps to get promotions Management (viii) Implementation of Ministry policies at School library (ix) Supportive Management Team (x) Space given for decision making (xi) Efficiency of Library Committee appointed Work Environment (xii) Work atmosphere (xiii) Suitability of the present location of school library (xiv) Sufficiency of Human resources specified to assist Remuneration (xv) Competiveness of salary pay with other library professionals
  • 4. Job Satisfaction Level of Teacher Librarians of National Schools in the Batticaloa District of Sri .. *Corresponding Author:Wilfred Jeyatheese Jeyaraj 37 | Page (xvi) Sufficient pay to Teacher plus Librarian (xvii) Additional allowances for after-school-hours duties at the school library Colleagues & Subordinates (xviii) Cooperative and friendly colleagues (xix) Efficiency of library assistants / attendants The respondents were asked to respond with theattitudes scale as given below, to each statement. Strongly Disagree -1, Disagree – 2, Undecided – 3, Agree – 4andStrongly Agree - 5 According to the scale values indicated in the questionnaire, the Mean value for each statement was calculated. VI. DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS Since the researcher interacted with each and every Teacher Librarian to get the data, the total number of ten which is a 100%of sample group members responded. Out of ten Teacher Librarians, 70% were Females while only 30% ofthe Teacher Librarians were Males. As far as the age range of Teacher Librariansis concerned, 20% were found to be in the 51-60 age range, 10% were in the 41-50 age range, 50% laid in the age range of 31-40 while the remaining 20% of Teacher librarians were youngstersranging from 21-30. 6.1 REPRESENTATION OF DIMENSIONAL STATEMENTS According to the responses received from the sample group, the following results shown in Table 3 were identified. Table 3 –Representation of Dimensional Statements Statements Strongly Disagree Disagree Undecided Agree Strongly Agree Mean Std. Dev. Level of Satisfaction 1. Suitability with Academic Qualifications 0% 0% 0% 60% 40% 4.4 0.5164 High 2. Bridging the Gap - Info & School Community 0% 0% 0% 100% 0% 4.5 0.527 High 3. Freedom to work 7% 7% 0% 43% 43% 3.7 1.2517 High 4 Task Balance- Teacher plus Librarian 22% 22% 11% 44% 0% 3 1.4142 Moderate 5. Pre-Training & Post- Training Opportunities 10% 30% 0% 60% 0% 3.1 1.1972 Moderate 6. Provision for study leave - Academic Training 40% 20% 10% 30% 0% 2.3 1.3375 Low 7. Training gained helps in promotions 60% 30% 10% 0% 0% 1.5 0.7071 Low 8.Implementation of Policies at library 40% 20% 20% 20% 0% 2.2 1.2293 Low 9. Supportive Management Team 11% 44% 11% 33% 0% 2.9 1.2867 Moderate 10. Space given for decision making 22% 22% 0% 56% 0% 3.1 1.4491 Moderate 11. Efficiency of Library Committee 10% 50% 20% 20% 0% 2.5 0.9718 Low 12. Work Atmosphere 13% 25% 0% 63% 0% 3.5 1.354 Moderate 13. Location of School Library 11% 11% 0% 78% 0% 3.6 1.1738 High 14. Sufficiency of Library Assistants/Attendants 29% 43% 0% 29% 0% 3.1 1.6633 Moderate 15.Competitive payment 70% 20% 10% 0% 0% 1.4 0.6992 Low 16. Pay for dual Task - Teacher plus Librarian 22% 33% 0% 44% 0% 2.9 1.4491 Moderate 17. Additional allowances after school hours 70% 30% 0% 0% 0% 1.3 0.483 Low 18. Cooperative & Friendly Colleagues 0% 33% 11% 56% 0% 3.4 1.075 Moderate 19. Efficiency of Library Assistants/Attendants 22% 33% 0% 44% 0% 2.9 1.4491 Moderate The Six research dimensional variables which consist of nineteen total numbers of statements indicated collectively each and every variable of the satisfactory level of Teacher Librarians in the National Schools in the Batticaloa District, Sri Lanka. Accordingly, the level of satisfaction with the „Job oriented‟ variable is high as the mean value 3.9 falls above the range of mean value 3.5 < X <5. Likewise the other variables such as “Training & Promotion”, “Management”, “Work Environment”, “Remuneration” and “Colleagues & Subordinates” show the satisfactory level of Teacher librarians as „Low”, “Moderate”, “Moderate”, “Low”, and “Moderate” respectively according to the mean values shown in Table 4 and the percentages of Satisfactory level of each variable are represented in Figure 1.
  • 5. Job Satisfaction Level of Teacher Librarians of National Schools in the Batticaloa District of Sri .. *Corresponding Author:Wilfred Jeyatheese Jeyaraj 38 | Page Table 4 – Satisfactory Level across Six Variables Percentages of Satisfactory Levels of Teacher Librarians JobOriented Training& Promotion Management WorkEnvironment Remuneration Colleagues& Subordinates Range of Mean Value 1 < X < 2.5 Low level 10% 60% 50% 20% 70% 40% 2.5 < X < 3.5 Moderate Level 30% 30% 30% 30% 30% 10% 3.5 < X < 5 High Level 60% 10% 20% 50% 0% 50% Mean Value 3.9 2.3 2.7 3.4 1.9 3.1 Standard Deviation 0.8433 0.9994 1.1729 1,2939 0.8043 1.2259 Level of Satisfaction High Low Moderate Moderate Low Moderate Fig. 1 - Satisfactory Level across Six Variables 6.2 OVERALL ANALYSIS The study which was carried out with the objective to measure the level of job satisfaction of Teacher librarians of national schools revealed the results as shown in Table 5 and Figure 2. Table 5 – Overall Analysis with the total research dimensions According to the above illustration, there are 40% of Teacher Librarians who are not satisfied with the whole facets related to the Job they were recruited for while only 30% of the whole sample reacts at a High Satisfactory level. The remaining 30% of the whole sample group of Teacher librarians show their moderate level of satisfaction in this regard. Range of Mean Value Satisfactory Levels No. of Teacher Librarians Percentage 1 < X < 2.5 Low Level 04 40% 2.5 < X < 3.5 Moderate Level 03 30% 3.5 < X < 5 High Level 03 30% Sample Size 10 100% Mean 2.9 Standard Deviation 1.0314 Satisfactory Level Moderate Level of Satisfaction
  • 6. Job Satisfaction Level of Teacher Librarians of National Schools in the Batticaloa District of Sri .. *Corresponding Author:Wilfred Jeyatheese Jeyaraj 39 | Page Fig. 2 -Overall Analysis with the total research dimensions Based on the data analysis, the job satisfaction level of Teacher librarians of National Schools in the Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka is at a ‘Moderate level of satisfaction’ as the mean value 2.9 falls between the range of mean value 2.5 < X <3.5 with the standard deviation of 1.0314. VII. CONSTRAINTS AFFECTING JOB PLEASURE There were several restraints identified to be affecting the job satisfaction among teacher librarians. These ranged from personally culpable issues to administrative faults and failures. Compressing the trivial limitations, the foremost constraints have been elucidated here. 7.1 Financial restrictions from the administrative unit One of the influential considerations that affected a school‟s decision in employing its teachers as librarians revolved around the financial basis. Salary payment to a dedicated librarian was drafted against a teacher-requested-as-a-librarian. The difference between the paycheck numbers crunched the decision soon and strong leaving the administration with compelling financial digits to resolve towards having teacher librarians instead of dedicated hired staff for the library. Hence, the teacher librarians have to oversee two different job roles, responsibilities and standards which enforce additional pressure and hassle at their work place excluding them from attaining privileges in job specialization. 7.2 Lack of specialized training Secondly, libraries now a days have transformed from mere paperback books and tangible cataloguing sources to digitized forms. Digital databases are available to maintain Meta data about the library‟s materialistic resources as well as tracking information for the circulation process of the library including its users‟ information and dates of transaction. But having teacher librarians working in such libraries has become less and less practical considering the fact that most of these teachers have very little computer literacy. Manipulating and managing data on these databases to retrieve vital user and resource based information requires an in-depth computer literacy in the related field. But the investigated teacher demographic functioning as librarians in the considered sample group claimed to have no computer literacy, let alone, the ability to maintain database centered information. Training these teachers to manipulate technological devices in order to fulfill their librarian functionalities seemed nearly impossible with the hectic work schedules imposed as a teacher and a librarian simultaneously. Hence, these teachers go straight into functioning as non-trained librarians and begin to struggle in handling the massive amount of data flowing in and out of the library. 7.3 Unmanageable schedules Teacher librarians need to be drafted with special schedules in order to cope with the two different tasks that they perform within a school and internally, its library. But due to the lack of understanding and proper scheduling, these teacher librarians have been imposed with impractical schedules that rule them out from having a relaxed work routine. Instead, they have been dictated to teach and manage library responsibilities in a rotation without due consideration about human work standards. Teaching itself requires a strenuous time plan. During this period, another substitute needs to be capable and on standby to fill in for the librarians‟ duties. But due to the deficiency of proper planning, the administrative units of such schools have not considered proper substitute facilities or minimal teaching hours to supplement the teacher librarians‟ task list. This ultimately places the teacher librarians to congest their downtime to countenance more time to perform their alternate responsibility. This leaves them at a place where they develop stress and hatred towards Not Satisfied level 40% Moderate level 30% Satisfied level 30% OVERALL EVALUATION OF JOB SATISFACTION
  • 7. Job Satisfaction Level of Teacher Librarians of National Schools in the Batticaloa District of Sri .. *Corresponding Author:Wilfred Jeyatheese Jeyaraj 40 | Page their job bringing them to degrade their job satisfaction. Most of them have even stated to consider changing their career due to this mind-numbing situation that they had to hustle between.These are only a few major constraints that were identified. Based on these constraints the issue can be elucidated and diminished further. VIII. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS The national development is based on the number of skillful workers and their real commitment and dedication towards their work which they are attached to. Therefore the government and private sectors set their own schemes to recruit the employees to reach their goal and reap optimal benefits. The Teacher librarians are not exceptional. A school library is a knowledge hub, the heart of the entire school and it plays a vital role in enhancing knowledge and wisdom among the school community. The Teacher librarians who manage these libraries must be happy and satisfied related to their job in order to plan, organize, lead and control as library managers. But the study revealed that the teacher librarians attached to the National schools in the Batticaloa district of Sri Lanka are not happy and the output that the school expects from them is not properly rendered in vain. Therefore the teacher librarians must be encouraged and motivated to uplift their work career as well as to enhance the library information services among the school community. Otherwise the aim and objectives of the school libraries will fail in fulfilling the needs of the school community. 8.1 RECOMMENTATIONS  The proper recognition should be given to the Teacher Librarians by the Ministry of Education and the School Management.  The physical structural set up of the school library must possess an environmentally friendly atmosphere to the Teacher librarians.  Sufficient number of Library Assistants and the Attendants who are very efficient must be recruited and appointed in the school libraries to assist the Teacher librarians.  More and more training programmes related to the IT based library tasks should be provided to the Teacher librarians to uplift their knowledge.  A flexible time table needs to be drafted for Teacher Librarians to give more time to serve in the school libraries.  The library committee members must be library lovers and must have an enthusiasm to develop the school library.  The management team should provide all necessary equipment, furniture, information materials and facilities on time to run the library in a smooth way. Since the school community depends on the school libraries to fulfill their information thirst, the school libraries must be organized well. The Teacher librarians who manage the school libraries should be motivated and made happy and peaceful to get the optimal output and services from them. REFERENCES [1]. Jeyaraj, M. "Analyzing the Plausible Alternatives in Contracting the Societal Fissure Caused by Digital Divide in Sri Lanka". World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, International Science Index 121, International Journal of Computer, Electrical, Automation, Control and Information Engineering, (2017), 11(1), 48 - 52. [2]. Purpose of the school library. (n.d.). Retrieved February 16, 2017, from https://natlib.govt.nz/schools/school-libraries/understanding-school-libraries/purpose-of-the-school- library [3]. Herring, J, “The end of the teacher librarian”, Teacher Librarian, vol. 33. no. 1, 2005.pp 26-29 [4]. Herring, J. “A critical investigation of students‟ and teachers‟ views of the use of information literacy skills in school assignments”. School Library Media Research, vol. 9. 2006. [5]. Kimmel, S. C. Seeing the clouds: Teacher librarian as broker in collaborative planning with teachers. School Libraries Worldwide, 18(1), 2012. 87-96. [6]. Khaleque, A & Rahman, M. A. Perceived importance of job facets and overall job satisfaction in industrial workers. Human Relations, 40(7),1987. 401-415. [7]. Alam, S. S., Tallha, M., Civanand, N. C. & Ahsan, N. M., Job satisfaction of university women teachers in Bangladesh. Journal of Social Science, 1(2),2005. 88-91. [8]. Rahman, M. Job stress, satisfaction and mental health of factory workers in Bangladesh. Work Stress, 3(2), 1989. 155-162
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