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Digitize or Perish: Strategies for Improving Access to Indigenous Intellectual Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa

Digitize or Perish: Strategies for Improving Access to Indigenous Intellectual Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Author(s): Stephen Asunka (Ghana Technology University College, Ghana)
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 15
Source title: Open Source Technology: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-7230-7.ch044

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Abstract

In today's knowledge and technology driven society, most scholarly information is increasingly being produced and distributed in digital formats. Yet, in Sub-Saharan Africa, academic libraries have been very slow at joining this digital movement, and hence stand the risk of losing their relevance, particularly with regard to locally generated intellectual material. To better serve the knowledge and information seeking needs of their patrons, librarians need to reinvent services. The challenges are discussed as well as prescriptions of workable strategies that librarians, information scientists, and other stakeholders can adopt to overcome these barriers. Such strategies mostly involve appropriately leveraging the existing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools and resources to make library resources more accessible. Consequently, digitizing indigenous intellectual resources may keep libraries from perishing and respond to user needs and information seeking habits in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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