Conférence ICADLA-3:Digital Libraries and Archives in Africa: Changing Lives and Building Communities, 27-31 mai 2013, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane (Maroc)
More university libraries are building institutional repositories in Nigeria
University of Jos was the first to break the ice in 2009
FUT, Owerri is digitizing postgraduate theses and dissertations
Redeemer’s University ...
ITHAKA (JSTOR) initiated a pilot digitization project in 2010, collaborating with two Nigerian universities, Bayero University, Kano (BUK) and University of Ibadan (UI).
The collaboration involves the establishment of a ...
Kigongo-Bukenya, Isaac M. N.(AL AKHAWAYN UNIVERSITY, IFRANE, MOROCCO, 2016-06-22)
Concern for cultural heritage not a new phenomenon in Uganda Cultural institutions preserve and pass on cultural heritage
Several legal deposit provisions in Uganda -
Supplemented by the Copyright and Neighboring Act, ...
Creating the sustainable means to safeguard and make the African scientific memory evolutive for future generations make challenges regarding preservation and knowledge sharing most acute. Then, many initiatives have been ...
Owano, Ashah(National Museums of Kenya, 2016-06-22)
African communities did not record events and accounts in writing
Mode of communication and transfer of IK was Oral
There is lack of Kenyan community stories and information on the web
Libraries have inadequate local ...
Eustache, Sirtaki(Archivist at the National Radio and Television of Burundi, 2016-06-22)
Archival heritage is essential to facilitate reforms and modernization in different areas of the state and society in Burundi, DRC and Rwanda and other countries also the archives of former colonial powers are often capitals ...
Since 2001 the IRD (Institut de recherche pour le développement) we undertook multiple actions in several Francophone African countries for digitization and internet access setting products scientific document collections ...
AAKKI, Hassan(Chief digitization project to BNRM, 2016-06-22)
Digitization is one of the priority projects of the National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco. The aim is to promote, preserve, promote and facilitate access via the Internet to our property holdings, including precious, ...
Kigongo-Bukenya, Prof Isaac M. N(Uganda Christian University (UCU), 2016-06-22)
LIS Education curriculum in Uganda is as old as the East African School of Library and Information Science (EASLIS) which started producing Information Professionals (IPs) since 1963. This paper probes whether Uganda LIS ...
Libraries are known to promote change through individual and institutional capacity leading to quality, effectiveness and then to development. Information and knowledge, as a vehicle of power and wealth, are then likely ...
With funding from the MacArthur Foundation, ITHAKA (JSTOR) has collaborated with two Nigerian university libraries – Bayero University, Kano and University of Ibadan, Ibadan – to develop digital collections. “The purpose ...
Owano, Ashah(National Museums of Kenya, 2016-06-21)
Kenyan libraries and information centres are inadequately equipped with local indigenous knowledge (IK) content to contribute to global digital knowledge economy. Scarcity of community stories and information on the web ...
Al Akhawayn University(Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, 2016-06-21)
The corpus of Moroccan manuscripts is estimated at more than 80,000 titles and 200,000 volumes held at a number of public and private libraries—mostly religious institutions and zawāyā. These collections are invaluable ...
Majawa, Felix Patrick(Mzuzu University, 2016-06-21)
The study investigated how the Bunda College Digital Library was implemented and used. 91 undergraduates, 10 postgraduates and 43 academic staff responded to questionnaires on the digital library usage. Facebook instant ...
In order to increase their global visibility and better performance in the web ranking of world universities, more Nigerian universities have been devising creative means of increasing their digital contents in the public ...
Increasing number of Nigerian universities is devising creative means of increasing their digital contents in the public domain by digitizing intellectual outputs of their faculty members. Digitization accords academic ...
Bwamkuu, Africa J(Third International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives (ICADLA-3), 2016-06-21)
While there is exponential growth of local generated intellectual output from Africa, remains are challenges to make the local content visible and available at the global level.
By 29th January, 2013, out of 2256 ...
This paper provides an overview of copyright and ownership, with a specific focus on photographic copyright and ownership and how copyright affects photographic researchers. The discussion also covers the duration of ...