Around the Globe: Case Studies in Library Automation

Adewoye, Alice A.; Fadayomi, J. A.; Adesina, Bisi; AbdulRaheem, Muyideen

doi:10.1108/lhtn.2001.23918faf.002

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“…Tinlib was a package which was used extensively in British Council libraries. In Ilorin, Nigeria, it was used by the university library from 1996, as reported by Adewoye et al (2001). 11 The library had, by 2001, almost replaced its card catalogue with the OPAC.…”

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“…In Ilorin, Nigeria, it was used by the university library from 1996, as reported by Adewoye et al (2001). 11 The library had, by 2001, almost replaced its card catalogue with the OPAC. The paper was optimistic about the future and reporting on the use of other electronic resources.…”

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“…In Ilorin Nigeria it was used from 1996 as reported by Adewoye et al (2001) [xi]. The library had by 2001 almost replaced its card catalogue by the OPAC.…”

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Library Automation in Developing Countries: the last 25 years

Hopkinson

2009

Information Development

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Library automation has developed in the industrialised world over the last 25 years and progress in developing countries cannot be separated from trends worldwide. However there are different criteria for success in developing countries which are brought out in this review. Open Source has been hailed as a solution to the economic problems but there are still organizational problems to be surmounted. There is also the possibility to develop one's own system. Nigeria, Thailand and India are taken as case studies, illustrating different kinds of solutions that are available and various pitfalls. Predictions into the future are difficult. Internet bandwidth will improve in developing countries and open source may prove useful but economics may not improve and power supply problems are likely to remain.

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confidence: 99%