ACQUISITION AND ORGANIZATION OF ELECTRONIC RESOURCES FOR INFORMATION SERVICE DELIVERY IN UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES IN SOUTH-SOUTH NIGERIA

📄 Project Abstract

The manifestation of electronic resources has significantly transformed information handling and organization in Nigerian educational environments, as well as institution of higher education libraries in particular. For instance, if electronic resources are well organized for use, and all the facilities needed to make them accessible by users are provided, library patrons will have access to them, which will in turn help the librarians to provide adequate information service delivery to their patrons either remotely or otherwise. What then are electronic resources? Electronic resources (ER) may be defined as online information resources, which include bibliographic database, electronic reference and are accessible with computers. Electronic resources could be described as one of the various items termed special materials in libraries. They are non-book format and therefore are handled differently from the general books and journals in print format. Some of the common types are: indexes...