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community Library for education for sustainable in Nigerian digital age
(GHANA LIBRARY JOURNAL, 2023-07-10) omigie christopher; Makinde Theresa Osasu
This paper is on Community Library for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Nigerian Digital age. The paper is an analytical perspective of literature and recognizance survey conducted on community library as a fundamental hub that connect communities with preserved information and cultural heritage for the Nigerian ESD. In the paper are the relevance of library information resources for the speedy advancement of research and development for a digital Nigeria. The idea of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as a school curriculum package with a worldwide standard of teaching and learning is treated to equip the indigenous learners with skills and knowledge to be able to work in a global market place with a universal knowledge base. Correspondingly is the correlation between community library and the ESD through digital access and use of resources for new novelties in the society. Various challenges of the Nigerian Education system and as they affect the ESD were identified and the ways forward suggested.
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Nigerian LIS Academic and Scholarly Publishing Experience: Challenges and the Way Forward
(2022) Oluwatoyin O. Obinyan; Adeyinka Tella
AbstractThe study examined Nigerian Library and Information Science, LIS academics and scholarly publishing experience: challenges and the way forward. A purely qualitative method was adopted using interview as a data collection instrument. The population of study comprised LIS academics from two LIS departments in two universities at the South–south region of Nigeria. Four objectives were developed to guide the study. The results reveal that LIS academics publish mostly for promotion, to improve the knowledge in their chosen discipline, keep themselves abreast of the development in LIS discipline, LIS academics scholarly publication experience range from beginners up to twelve years with publications in various reputable LIS outlets. LIS academics face the challenges of heavy workload, inadequate experience, and lack of knowledge of relevant scholarly publishing outlets, and increasing rate of electronic journals due to advancement in ICT among others. To overcome the challenges, incentives should be provided to motivate LIS academics to engage in scholarly publishing, sponsorship of LIS academics to attend international conference to gain confidence, knowledge and experience on scholarly publishing, allocate money for staff to support their scholarly publishing, a compilation of a unified standard list of journals that should be a guide on where to get published.
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