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Adetayo, Adebowale Jeremy; Gbotoso, Arinola Oluwatoyin – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
Patronage of public libraries in Nigeria has declined over the years and is in urgent need of revitalization. Outreach efforts would revitalize the interest of university students in the patronage of public libraries in Nigeria because they need access to resources, especially when on holidays. The study investigates the outreach programs used to…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Library Services, Public Libraries, Users (Information)
Tolulope, Akano – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2017
Libraries before the 21st century carried out daily routine library task such as cataloguing and classification, acquisition, reference services etc using manual procedures only but the advent of Information Technology as transformed these routine task that libraries can now automate their activities by deploying the use of library software in…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Demography, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries
Adekunmisi, Sowemimo Ronke; Odunewu, Abiodun Olusegun – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
Web 2.0 applications to library services are aimed at enhancing the provision of relevant and cost-effective information resources for quality education and research. Despite the richness of these web applications and their enormous impact on library and information services as recorded in the developed world, Nigerian academic libraries are yet…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Electronic Libraries, Library Services, Library Automation
Tella, Adeyinka; Soluoku, Taofeeqat – Education for Information, 2016
This study analysed the usage of Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 tools by librarians in Kwara State academic libraries. A sample of 40 librarians was surveyed through total enumeration sampling technique from four different tertiary education institutions libraries in Kwara State, Nigeria. Questionnaire was used for the collection of data. The collected…
Descriptors: Use Studies, Web 2.0 Technologies, Library Automation, Library Services
Ntui, Aniebiet Inyang; Inyang, Comfort Linus – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This study investigated utilization of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) resources and job effectiveness among library staff in the University of Calabar and Cross River University of Technology, Nigeria. To achieve the purpose of this study, four hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Ex-post facto research design was adopted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Library Automation, Research Libraries
Gbadamosi, Belau Olatunde – Online Submission, 2011
The paper examines the level of library automation and virtual library development in four academic libraries. A validated questionnaire was used to capture the responses from academic librarians of the libraries under study. The paper discovers that none of the four academic libraries is fully automated. The libraries make use of librarians with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Automation, Library Services, Electronic Libraries

Greaves, Monica A. – International Library Review, 1975
Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC) is proposed as a means of expanding and improving library services in Nigeria. (PF)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Developing Nations, Library Acquisition, Library Automation

Igwe, P. O. E. – International Library Review, 1986
Summarizes impact of the electronic age and role of the library focusing on the situation in Nigeria and concern for the new age; problems of Nigerian libraries and librarians (developing economy, responsibility for development, political situation, technological problems, lack of personnel); future prospects; and suggestions for present.…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Futures (of Society), Libraries, Library Automation

Shoyinka, Patricia H. – International Library Review, 1979
The Nigerian national bibliography, its development, coverage, scope, format, frequency and currency of publication, cataloging, and standards are discussed as are access to national collections through union lists and library automation in relation to bibliographic control. (MBR)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Depository Libraries, Developing Nations, Development
Ajayi, N. A.; Okunlola, A. A. – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2005
The imposition of fines in academic libraries for overdue books is a global phenomenon and penalties for overdue books have been levied by libraries for centuries. The study reported here surveyed students' perception of increases in fines imposed by the management of Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Library in the academic year 2002/2003. 1,500 respondents…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Student Attitudes, Academic Libraries, Library Automation

Nkereuwem, E. E. – Information Services and Use, 1988
Discusses the need for emerging information technologies to be integrated into the Nigerian academic library environment for the improvement of existing systems and services, and the threat to the role of the academic library if new technologies are not embraced by the year 2000. (15 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Alabi, G. A. – Microcomputers for Information Management: An International Journal for Library and Information Services, 1985
This overview of an experimental automated circulation system at Ibadan University (Nigeria) includes a discussion of system hardware, software, program structure, file structure, and system functions (charges, discharges, renews, overdues, fines, reservations, recalls, and assisted query). Statistics on manual and automated systems related to…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Design, Developing Nations, Information Retrieval

Enyia, Christian O.; And Others – International Library Review, 1991
Includes five articles that discuss library and information work in Africa. Highlights include computerization in Nigerian libraries; education for library and information services in Ghana; an evaluation of African librarianship; the role of Nigerian publishers in national development; and the role of information services in national development…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Foreign Countries, Information Science
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1986
Papers on social science libraries presented at the 1986 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) conference include: (1) "Efforts at Computerization in Nigerian Libraries--A State of Development Review" (A. Olugboyega Banjo, Nigeria); (2) "The Information Activities of the National Library of Economics in the Federal…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Databases, Developed Nations, Developing Nations

Ifidon, Betty I. – World Libraries, 2000
Identifies major problems that affect reader's services departments in Nigerian university libraries. Highlights include the functions of the reader's services department, including circulation, collection management, user education, and interlibrary loan; student population explosion; funding shortages; staffing shortages; and suggested…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Interlibrary Loans, Library Automation
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