ABSTRACT This study focused on the evaluation librarians’ acceptability levels and use of cloud computing for library services in academic libraries. The study was narrowed to only academic libraries of Kaduna state, Nigeria. The background covers the levels of acceptance of cloud computing from the global, regional and national perspectives. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the librarians’ acceptability and use of cloud computing for library service in academic libraries. The obj...
ABSTRACT Though the OER movement has been in existence for over a decade now, less has been said on their integration in the academic Libraries. Academic libraries may hold institutional content such as syllabi and past exam papers but Inclusion of lecture notes, presentations, and assessment materials has not been a common practice in the university libraries. It was noted that even if the materials are found in electronic formats these contents remains closed in virtual learning environment...
ABSTRACT The researcher evaluated librarian’s awareness and uptake of open source library software in Federal Colleges of Education in North-East Nigeria. The study discussed on open source software for libraries. The study investigated on the uptake situation, level of awareness, benefits and problems of open source for library service. The purpose is to recommend the best open source software for the Federal Colleges Library for their uptake operations. Literatures was reviewed which incl...
ABSTRACT University libraries should consider institutional repositories as ongoing projects in order to cater for the changing needs of modern scholarly communication. Many universities have not made all research outputs from their scholarly communities available in their IRs. A number of research outputs available in IRs of universities in Kenya are not available in full-text and only available in abstract form thus making such resources less useful to the users they are meant for. Universi...
Abstract This project report describes a study that was undertaken to find out evidence of knowledge in information literacy, skills and practices if any in the county government environment in Kenya. It also investigates the connection between acquired literacy skills and their influences on service delivery, particularly with respect the county government office as the work place. A case study method was employed; data collection involved the administration of questionnaires to selected cou...
This study was designed to find out the constraints to electronic books utilization in private university libraries in Kenya. Although E-books have been around for some time and in spite of the advantages that may accrue from their use, they remained less utilized compared to other electronic resources in private university libraries in Kenya.
ABSTRACT Poor reading culture being exhibited by the secondary school students in Edo State is responsible for their inability to engage in critical thinking, sound analysis of events and situations, and poor academic achievement. Many studies have examined cognitive factors affecting reading culture with little attention on print and Internet resources. This study, therefore, investigated availability of print and Internet resources as factors influencing reading culture of secondary school...
Legislation plays an important role in the provision of public and national library services. However, in Zambia libraries that perform the functions of public and national libraries are operating without a legislative mandate. As a result, there is a fragmentation of library services as there is no single institution which performs all the functions of a national library service. Although several efforts were made before to enact national library service legislation, no Act of Parliament has...
ABSTRACT Streams draining the Southern part of Mt. Kenya are currently heavily impacted by human encroachment and large patches of riparian forests have been converted from indigenous to plantation forests. Modification of riparian vegetation was hypothesized to have influence on streams. This study aimed at investigating the effect of forest type and stream size on leaf litter decomposition, macroinvertebrate diversity and water quality in streams draining Mt. Kenya catchment. Riparian tree ...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to investigate factors affecting the adoption of open access in research activities within Tanzanian public universities in order to device mechanisms of enhancing the use of this mode of scholarly communication. The study adopted the UTAUT model to formulate an open access research model comprising of six constructs and five moderators for guidance of this investigation. A triangulation approach for data gathering was adopted. In the first instance, a semi-...
ABSTRACT King’s Teachers Booking system is currently new online platform aimed to provide a modern user friendly, secured, available, reliable and ‘open market place’ where students and private schools will choose private teachers based on merit and relevance to their tuition or academic needs. Hence, the system is meant to offer an online booking of private teachers. The system is expected to simplify the method of finding an actual offline private teachers (Not Online learning) at any...
ABSTRACT In this paper it is argued that literacy is critical for socio-economic development. A literate nation makes positive contributions to the general development of a country. This paper also seek to establish the strategies that public libraries have employed to promote and sustain high literacy rates in the country. It was investigated the innovative strategies like story telling sessions and explain how they have helped Kenya achieve Africa’s highest literacy level despite the soci...
ABSTRACT The environment in which libraries operate has changed significantly with the advent of information age. Technological advancement has compelled libraries to adopt interactive online media for their survival mainly because of its profound influence to the functions of libraries and the information seeking behavior of the readers. However, the proliferation of new technologies opens a number of challenges for libraries in institutions of higher learning which include; inadequate infr...
ABSTRACT Research productivity requiring information resources is a measure of academic success. The volume of information resources potentially available to academic staff is massive hence there is a need for information literacy skills to access these, evaluate, and effectively utilize available information for research productivity. Several studies have examined academics’ research productivity using variables, such as institutional factors, demographic characteristics and information u...
Abstract The growing recognition of the need for humanities in medical colleges has opened discussion for the integration of medical humanities into the curriculum of medical schools. The paper discusses Nigerians’ place in the realization of the integration of medical humanities (MH) into the curriculum of medical students in Nigerian universities. The study was conducted by gathering data from six colleges of medicine located in the south western part of Nigeria. The curriculum of most m...