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ADVANCING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN KENYAN UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Africa/Nairobi
Modern Hotel (Meru)

Modern Hotel

Meru

Description

Academic libraries are being encouraged to digitalize their services. This idea has been supported with the advent of COVID-19 where health measures are encouraging social distancing and avoiding hand to hand distribution of documents and the limit of face to face contacts. Encouragement is being made to have a full online lectures or blended mode of teaching where there is a mixture of face to face with online courses. The main challenge in this process is that most of core books related to academic courses in libraries are in printed format and accessible only by visiting the library. It is to note that private higher learning institutions in Africa are still facing challenges related to inadequate resources as they do not get governmental finance support. This study aims to review literature on the role of digitalization of academic libraries as a response to the blended mode of teaching. The objective of the study is to investigate challenges faced by academic libraries in private higher learning institutions in Africa that limit them to satisfy their users’ needs through digitization of the library and to propose strategies that can be adopted in order to overcome those challenges. Literature reviewed found out that: The digitalization of library has a great role to play on library users’ needs satisfaction; That academic libraries are facing challenges during the digitalization process, challenges that limit fully adoption the use of internet and the digitalization of libraries in order to satisfy library users’ needs. The study recommends: the management to avail adequate resources to libraries; hiring new personnel and deploying/retraining existing staff in ICT related to 

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      The Importance of Librarian Involvement in Re-Engineering Knowledge Management in Libraries: Exploring the Role of Librarians

      The Importance of Librarian Involvement in Re-Engineering Knowledge Management in Libraries: Exploring the Role of Librarians

      Speaker: John Maina (Hyperlink)
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      Towards greater visibility of research works: An Institutional Repository for the management of scholarly works at Strathmore University

      Towards greater visibility of research works: An Institutional Repository for the management of scholarly works at Strathmore University Toggle navigation Login Toggle navigation View Item Repository Home Staff Publications School of Computing & Informatics View Item Repository Home Staff Publications School of Computing & Informatics View Item Towards greater visibility of research works: An Institutional Repository for the management of scholarly works at Strathmore University Thumbnail Date 2011 Author Njoroge, George Gitau Ruth, N Gibend Metadata Show full item record URI http://repository.must.ac.ke/handle/123456789/1025 Collections School of Computing & Informatics [60] MUST Repository copyright © 2002-2016 MUST Repository Contact Us | Send Feedback Theme by MUST Repository Search DSpace This Collection Browse All of the RepositoryCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthors

      Speaker: Ms Ruth Gibendi (Hyperlink)