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Opportunities and Challenges of Automation Experience by some Academic Libraries in Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa : a Perspective on West Africa
Mini Dissertation (MIT)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/51474 Opportunities and Challenges of Automation Experience by some Academic Libraries in Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa : a Perspective on West Africa Underwood, Peter G. Barfi, Faustina UCTD Automation experience Academic libraries Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-04 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-09 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-10 Mini Dissertation (MIT)--University of Pretoria, 2015. The study explored the opportunities, the experience, developments and challenges of academic library automation, with a perspective from Anglophone West Africa, Ghana Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Gambia and Liberia. Literature was triangulated with empirical data to ascertain whether the same elements were present for the resultant countries. Questionnaires were used for the empirical data whilst the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) method was adopted for the secondary data. Findings revealed that majority of the libraries were at different stages in the automation process. The challenges and opportunities discovered were not different from one country to the other. Increased access to a wider range of formats, increased resource sharing resulting from Inter Library Loan (ILL), effective and efficient service, increased visibility, fast and convenient service, searchability and discoverability were identified as some of the opportunities. Development such as the application of open source software, discovery as a search tool, cloud computing, consortia, data security, gamification, Resource Description Access (RDA) and application of mobile devices were gradually exploited by Anglophone West African academic libraries. Some of the challenges that were discovered include; poor internet connectivity, inadequate technical expertise to manage automated systems, lack of computers, poor cooperation, erratic power supply, inadequate project management skills amongst other. Recommendations identified to manage the challenges were increased bandwidth to improve internet connectivity, provision of adequate power supply, availability of systems librarians, increased collaboration and consortia, application of project management skills, and capacity of librarians in the areas of advanced Information Communication Technology (ICT) applications. nn2026 Information Science MIT Unrestricted SDG-04: Quality education SDG-09: Industry, innovation and infrastructure SDG-10: Reduced inequalities 2016-02-19T08:29:40Z 2016-02-19T08:29:40Z 2016-04-19 2015 Mini Dissertation Barfi, F 2015, Opportunities and Challenges of Automation Experience by some Academic Libraries in Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa : a Perspective on West Africa, MIT Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/51474> http://hdl.handle.net/2263/51474 en © 2016 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Automation experience Academic libraries Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-04 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-09 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-10 Opportunities and Challenges of Automation Experience by some Academic Libraries in Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa : a Perspective on West Africa |
| title | Opportunities and Challenges of Automation Experience by some Academic Libraries in Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa : a Perspective on West Africa |
| title_full | Opportunities and Challenges of Automation Experience by some Academic Libraries in Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa : a Perspective on West Africa |
| title_fullStr | Opportunities and Challenges of Automation Experience by some Academic Libraries in Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa : a Perspective on West Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Opportunities and Challenges of Automation Experience by some Academic Libraries in Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa : a Perspective on West Africa |
| title_short | Opportunities and Challenges of Automation Experience by some Academic Libraries in Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa : a Perspective on West Africa |
| title_sort | opportunities and challenges of automation experience by some academic libraries in anglophone sub saharan africa a perspective on west africa |
| topic | UCTD Automation experience Academic libraries Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-04 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-09 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-10 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/51474 |