Browsing by Author "Aliyu, Mahmud"

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    Assessment of ICT Utilisation Among Legal Practitioners in Kwara State
    (Ilorin Varsity International Journal of Library & Information Science, 2022) Yahaya, Ibrahim Olarewanju; Aliyu, Mahmud; Abdullahi, Ibrahim Mohammad; Nuhu, Silifat Ranti
    This study examines the utilization of ICTs among legal practitioners in Kwara State. The study adopted a descriptive survey design, the population of the study was 772 consisting of all the registered legal practitioners in the Ilorin and Offa branches of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). Total enumeration was adopted and a stratified sampling technique was applied. The study used a questionnaire as a data collection instrument and the data collected were analyzed. The study found out the available ICT resources include mobile phones, laptops, desktops, scanners, electronic court records, Internet and CD-Rom, which legal practitioners use on daily bases purposely to further knowledge on legal issues, for the work in progress and to defend their client in the court of law. The study also reported that revamping the nature of ICT resources, poor internet facilities, and epileptic power supply are some of the challenges that legal practitioners encountered while using ICT resources. The study concludes that ICT utilization is ponderous in the legal profession. Among the recommendations given is that a standby generator/inverter should be provided to curb the issue of power failure
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    DEVELOPMENT OF INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES IN ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES IN NIGERIA
    (Proceedings of the 7th National Conference of Academic and Research Libraries, 2021) Eromosele, George Osas; Adesina, Fadeke; Abdulrazaq, Mutalib Olanrewaju; Aliyu, Mahmud
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    DEVELOPMENT OF INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES IN ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES IN NIGERIA
    (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022) Eromosele, George Osas; Adesina, Olabisi Fadeke; Abdulrazaq, Mutalib Olanrewaju; Aliyu, Mahmud
    As knowledge is on the rise and research outputs from academic and research libraries continue to increase, there is a need to create access to some information materials that have no copyright restrictions so that information users can gain unhindered access electronically to institutional resources beyond where it is physically domicile for researchers’ benefits. The development of an Institutional Repository for academic and research libraries is the way forward because the process makes possible visibility of localized scholarly contents on web platform and also provide open access to the resources. In Nigeria, the establishment of the Institutional Repository in some academic and research institutions has helped to reduce researchers’ and students’ challenges of accessing information in institutions that are far off there residing location. This is a big challenge that can affect researchers’ efforts in gathering materials that they can cite for their research work. With more establishment of Institutional Repositories, access to localized information domiciled in the remote institutions can be easily accessed by visiting the institutional library online to retrieve the material. This paper explores the relevance of developing Institutional Repositories for open and unrestricted access to localized resources; and discusses academic and research libraries roles in developing institutional repositories; the types of software to be used for the development; and the hardware requirements alongside. The copyright infringements was addressed and the way forward to ensures that contents to be uploaded into the provision are checked using copyright checker called Sherpa Romeo.