Library and Information Dissemination in a Traditional Society: The Igbo of Eastern Nigeria

Odi, Amusi

doi:10.1006/iilr.1994.1001

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“…Lwesye (1989) . Zu speziellen Dienstleistungen der Bibliothekare für Igbo-Gemeinschaften vergleiche Odi (1994). Mabawonku (1980) schildert die Probleme eines Forschungsprojektes zur Sammlung oraler Traditionen am Department of Library Studies der Universität Ibadan.…”

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Bibliotheken in Afrika. Eine historische Annäherung

Strzolka¹

1999

BIBLIOTHEK Forschung Und Praxis

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Bibliotheken in Afrika. Eine historische Annäherung

Strzolka¹

1999

BIBLIOTHEK Forschung Und Praxis

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“…Rather than being an exercise in nation building by indigenous forces, the public library system was a part of the state structures left behind by the departing colonial power". While admitting that Eastern Nigerians are not motivated to use the library nor are they comfortable in it, Odi [23] blames this, to a large extent, on the provincialism and élitism associated with traditional African libraries, rather than blaming lacks in the dissemination of information on the retarded development of automation.…”

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Profiling African libraries: automation in Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria

Garcha

Buttlar

1996

Library Review

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Access to and utilization of information is essential to the development of a third world nation [1,2]. On an international basis, declining economies and technological innovations have prompted libraries to accept rapidly changing roles from owners of major warehouse collections of materials to providers of access to information. While resource sharing is an increasingly essential component of qualitative information provision, it is, of course, dependent on the extent of automation available, particularly the linkages to major utilities and networked databases with standardized organization of materials, search protocols and retrieval capabilities [3].According to Gboyega Banjo, director of Library and Documentation Services in Nigeria and chairman (African Section), Regional Activities Division of IFLA:Technology offers libraries in the Third World, no less than those in the industrialised world, an ideal solution to a number of problems of managing a modern research library. It offers speed, accuracy and efficiency in the processing, presentation and retrieval of catalogue information. While I would not advocate it at this stage for every library in our hemisphere, I believe it is now desirable for all key national, academic and research libraries [4].

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Beyond Merry-Making: Customs of Indigenous Peoples and the Normative Functions of Ceremonies in Precolonial Igbo Societies

Mgbeoji

2016

Ethnic and Cultural Dimensions of Knowledge

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Library and Information Dissemination in a Traditional Society: The Igbo of Eastern Nigeria

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Bibliotheken in Afrika. Eine historische Annäherung

Bibliotheken in Afrika. Eine historische Annäherung

Profiling African libraries: automation in Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria

Beyond Merry-Making: Customs of Indigenous Peoples and the Normative Functions of Ceremonies in Precolonial Igbo Societies

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