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Strategies for addressing the university library users’ changing needs and practices in Sub-Saharan Africa
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A Sub-Saharan African academic Librarian’s experience in trying to address the changing needs and practices of university library users is presented.About:
This article is published in The Journal of Academic Librarianship.The article was published on 2008-11-01. It has received 25 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Information system & Paradigm shift.read more
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Institutional repositories and the role of academic libraries in scholarly communication
Brenda Chawner,Rowena Cullen +1 more
TL;DR: This article explored the development of institutional repositories as a global phenomenon, comparing their objectives with the core principles of scholarly communication that have preserved and disseminated western knowledge for the past two centuries.
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Institutional repositories in Africa: obstacles and challenges
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on a survey that attempted to identify the obstacles and challenges regarding IRs in African academic institutions and recommend strategies on how African academic institution could increase the number of IRs and improve the utilisation of IR in the continent.
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Information behavior and expectations of veterinary researchers and their requirements for academic library services
Marguerite Nel,Ina Fourie +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a case study at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria (South Africa) aimed to determine what the information needs, information seeking behavior and information use behavior of veterinary researchers are, and how these needs are being met by the library.
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Challenges of Students' Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) in Library and Information Science in the ICT Environment
TL;DR: The Students Work Experience (SIWES) program prepares students for labor markets, a skill development program designed to prepare students of universities, polytechnics/monotechnics, and colleges of education for transition from the college environment to work.
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Information needs, information seeking behaviour and information use behaviour of researchers at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria and how these needs are being met by the information support delivered by the Jotello F Soga Library
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of researchers and information specialists at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria in South Africa was conducted to determine what the information needs, information seeking behaviour and information use behaviour of veterinary researchers are, and how these needs are being met by the library.
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IT and university libraries in Africa
TL;DR: Based on the findings of a detailed review of the current state and future prospects of 19 university libraries in 12 countries of Africa, levels of adoption and benefits IT has brought to libraries are weighed against the drawbacks.