Running and Maintaining an ICT-Based Library in a Developing Economy: The Covenant University Experience
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Date
2008-10
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Enugu State University of Science and Technology
Abstract
Information and Communication Technology has revolutionized library and Information sen,ices delivery across the globe. The paper examines the Covenant University experience as a model to encourage libraries in developing economies that leveraging with international standards and benchmarks as well as best practices is possible. The superiority of ICT-based library over its manual counterpart is highlighted. This includes: easy integration of various activities, increase in the range of services offered, provision (~f round-the-clock access to
users, etc. The paper discusses inhibiting factors to running a hi-tech library in
Africa and draws heavily from the Covenant University context to underscore basic
infrastructures, skills, values and technological capabilities that are irreducible
imperatives and prerequisites for efficient as well as effective running and
maintenance of an ICT-based library. It concludes by admonishing that African
libraries must not be left behind in this era of flat world and universal as 11·ell as
unfettered access to global information. The panacea to intellectual inequity and
lopsidedness between the developed and developing world is the application of ICT
in information management and dissemination.
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ICT-based library, Developing economy, Covenant University
Citation
Nkiko, C., Ilo, P. I., & Osayande, O. (2008). Running and Maintaining an ICT-Based Library in a Developing Economy: The Covenant University Experience. A Journal of Library and Information Science., 6(2), 22-34.