November 2012

Information services provision and user satisfaction in agricultural research libraries in Nigeria

  The study examined the extent to which users are satisfied with reference and circulation services provision by agricultural research libraries in Nigeria. Descriptive survey method was used for the study. Through purposive sampling six agricultural research libraries: (three university of agricultural libraries and three agricultural research institute libraries) were selected from three out of six...

Author(s): Solomon Uganneya, Rebecca Ape and Nancy Ugbagir

November 2012

Information needs and study behaviour of non-traditional students with particular reference to university libraries in Kenya

  The purpose of the study was to investigate the information needs and study behaviour of non-traditional university students, university libraries’ role in information provision, how it impacts on the academic development of the students, challenges they face and make recommendations on how the university libraries can improve the situation. The non-traditional students face many challenges that include...

Author(s): Jotham Milimo Wasike and Stanley Munene

November 2012

Problems and prospects of the information services based on the mobile phone in Bangladesh

The purpose of this study was to discuss the mobile phone based information services in Bangladesh and then describes the telecommunication facilities (and hence information access and provision) of mobile phone-based information services companies in Bangladesh including Grameenphone, Robi (Aktel) Banglalink, Citycell, Airtel (Warid) and Teletalk. The paper then highlighted problems and prospects, in rural areas of...

Author(s): Md. Maidul Islam

November 2012

Collaborative strength and pattern of authorship among agricultural engineers in Nigeria: A case study of the 2000 – 2010 NIAE proceedings

  There is no doubt that collaboration is a common phenomenon in research. This paper examined the collaborative strength and patterns of authorship among agricultural engineers in Nigeria, using the Nigerian Institution of Agricultural Engineers (NIAE) proceedings between 2000 and 2010 with the exclusion of 2008 data, covering a period of 10 years. The results of the data were analysed based on the number of...

Author(s): Oyeniyi, J. Oluwakemi and Olaifa, Taye Paul