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Digitization Of Local Collections And Its Impact On Scholarship In The Library
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The
inherent values of digitization are the ability to preserve information
resources and quick access to information in a digital format from
local to remote areas for teaching, learning and research. In view of
this, it is expected that the findings of this research work will be of
benefit to the following groups of people: the library administrators,
library system analysts and digital library management staff, the
general library staff, library users and researchers.
The findings of
this study will help the library administration to adopt effective
strategies that will help them enhance their digitization practices in
libraries. On the other hand, the system analysts and the digital
library management staff will also find this work useful. This is
because, it is expected that the findings of this work will be useful in
their programming, designs, and their formulation of strategies that
could better enhance digitization.
Moreover, the findings of this
study will be useful to the entire library staff as it will help to
reveal to them the extent of digitization project in their libraries. In
addition, the findings of this study will be of benefit to the library
users as it will reveal to them the various library materials that are
being digitized to enable them carry out effective learning and
research.
This work will be a vital source material to researchers
especially in the area of digitization of Library local content
collections as it will help in widening their horizon in the knowledge
of digitization process in libraries as well as revealing to them the
digitalization of local collection and its impact on scholarship in the
various universities under study.
Scope of the Study
This research
covers the following federal university libraries in the South-Eastern
Zone of Nigeria: University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Nnamdi Azikiwe
University, Awka (UNIZIK), Michael Okpara University of Agriculturre,
Umudike (MOUAU), and Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO).
Furthermore,
the study will be delimited to: purpose, facilities/resources employed
in digitization; types of resources digitized, extent of digitization in
libraries under study; problems and strategies for enhancing
digitization.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study investigated the digitalization of local collection and its impact on scholarship using the status of digitalization in some federal university libraries in South-Eastern Zone of Nigeria. Seven research questions guided the study. The research design adopted for this study is a descriptive survey. The total population for this study was three hundred and twenty-three (323) library staff, but sixty (60) rspondents that were directly involved in digitization were sampled. The major inst ... Continue reading---
