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The Impact Of Information Communication Technology On Nigerian Public Academic Libraries
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ICT has impacted on every sphere of academic library activity especially
in the form of the library collection development strategies, library
building and consortia. ICT presents an opportunity to provide
value-added information services and access to a wide variety of digital
based information resources to their clients. Furthermore, academic
libraries are also using modern ICTs to automate their core functions,
implement efficient and effective library cooperation and resource
sharing networks, implement management information systems, develop
institutional repositories of digital local contents, and digital
libraries: and initiate ICT based capacity building programmes for
library users.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has
brought unprecedented changes and transformation to academic library and
information services, conventional LIS such as OPAC, users services,
reference services, bibliographic services, current awareness services,
Document delivery, interlibrary loan, Audio visual services and customer
relations can be provided more efficiently and effectively using ICT,
as they offer convenient time, place, cost effectiveness, faster and
most-up-to-date dissemination and end users involvement in the library
and information services process. The impact of ICT characterized on
information services by changes in format, contents and method of
production and contents and method of production and delivery of
information products. Emergence of internet as the largest repository of
information and knowledge, changed role of library and information
science professionals from intermediary to facilitator, new tools for
dissemination of information and shift from physical to virtual services
environment and extinction of some conventional information services
and emergence of new and innovational web based.
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