NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 4 results Save | Export
Understanding the Technology and Humans as Determinants of Cloud Computing Adoption for Digital Preservation of Research Outputs in University Libraries
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Hassan Mallam Ibrahim; Kamsuriah Ahmad; Hasimi Sallehudin – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
As the need for digital content increases almost daily, preserving this content for university libraries, especially in the least developed and developing nations, becomes a challenge, resulting in the loss of this data. Even though most of these libraries are automated and adopt one digital preservation strategy or the other, library users need…
Descriptors: Preservation, Technology Uses in Education, Research Libraries, Internet
Effects of Students' Demographic and Academic Characteristics on Library Use: A Perspective from Pakistan
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Arshad, Alia; Mansoor, Faiqa; Mahmood, Khalid – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2021
This study investigated students' use of the central library of the University of the Punjab in Lahore, Pakistan, including the effect of various demographic and academic characteristics on the utilization of library services. The study also examined library users' methods of finding information sources and their perceived importance of the…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Student Attitudes, Value Judgment, Graduate Students
Is the NCL a National Library? Occasional Paper No. 37.
Ilomo, C. S. – 1979
This essay reviews the functions of the Tanzanian National Central Library (NCL) and evaluates the activities performed and services provided by the NCL in light of the definitions of national library functions established by UNESCO and by K. W. Humphreys, Librarian of the University of Birmingham. The relationship between the NCL and the…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Comparative Analysis, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
The Application of the Multi-Media Library in Southern African Third World Higher Education.
van Zijl, Philippus Lodewikus van S. – 1986
This study on the development of Southern African Third World States' academic libraries embraces three broad areas: (1) the multimedia library; (2) the development of university libraries in the Third World; and (3) the potential usefulness of the multimedia library in the conditions prevailing in the Third World. Searches of the literature on…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Higher Education