Assessment of Local Contents Digitisation among University Libraries in Kwara State, Nigeria
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https://doi.org/10.64348/zije.2026411Keywords:
Local content, Resources, Digitisation, University, librariesAbstract
This paper assesses local contents digitisation in the university libraries in Kwara state Nigeria. The population of the study was 67 professional librarians in Kwara State universities, Nigeria, during the 2004/2005 academic session. The manageable size of the population warrants the adoption of total enumeration technique, thus, questionnaire was used as a tool for data collection and distributed to respondents physically at their different libraries by the two research assistants, where at the end, a total of 67 questionnaires were recovered and made usable for analysis (100% response rate). The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, the result indicate that universities libraries can boast of good collection of certain local content resources such as inaugural newsletter, books by staff, project/thesis/dissertations, institutional hand book, faculty and departmental journals and so on. The work highlighted some advantages of local content and hindrances of effective digitisation.
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