Doctoral Degrees (Information Studies)
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A framework for digital archiving at selected public universities in Kenya.
(2022)Archival records are knowledge assets that preserve the overall historical scholarship, memory and identity of organisations and institutions of higher learning. The rapid transformations witnessed on the digital landscape ... -
E-records security management at Moi University, Kenya.
(2019)E-records are vital for the operation of the state as they document official evidence of the transactions of a business, government, private sector, non-governmental organizations, and even individuals. Therefore, e-records ... -
Marketing to enhance the use of information resources and quality of services in medical libraries of public universities in North-West Nigeria.
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An ethnographic study of the utilisation of electronic library databases by academic staff in North-Central Nigeria.
(2021)This ethnographic case study is an exploration of the utilisation of electronic library databases by academic staff in North-Central Nigeria. The motivation for this study stemmed from the researcher's experiences as a ... -
Strategies for sustaining the provision of electronic information resources services in university libraries of North Central Nigeria.
(2020)Electronic Information Resources (EIRs) is trending as a system of information provision and services in libraries, an alternative to the traditional information services system. EIRs presently constitute vital sources of ... -
The training of teacher librarians and the development of school libraries in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2021)Libraries are the important resources that knowledge production institutions such as schools must have in order to effectively realise their objectives. It is important to note that libraries are hubs of the learning ... -
Records management practices in selected municipalities in Limpopo province of South Africa.
(2021)The high level of corruption and maladministration, lack of accountability and transparency in municipalities has become endemic and is a cause for concern in many municipalities of South Africa. The ability of any ... -
Availability and utilisation of information resources by academic librarians for job performance enhancement in selected university libraries in North-Central Nigeria.
(2020)The study examined availability and utilisation of information resources by academic librarians for job performance enhancement in selected university libraries in North-Central Nigeria. Five research questions and four ... -
Information and communication technology skills on knowledge sharing among librarians in federal university libraries in South-West, Nigeria.
(2019)Abstract available in PDF. -
Exploring knowledge sharing through social media among members of the African Community of Practice.
(2019)This study sought to examine the extent of social media use for knowledge sharing among members of the African Community of Practice (AfCoP), a distributed community of practice of development practitioners. It also sought ... -
Use of electronic security systems in academic libraries: experiences of selected universities in South-West Nigeria.
(2019)This study investigated the use of electronic security systems in academic libraries in selected universities in South West, Nigeria. The study in particular, examined the different library security systems that are in use ... -
Role of information ethics in the provision of library and information services in university libraries in Tanzania.
(2018)The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of information ethics in the provision of library and information services in university libraries in Tanzania. The study sought to address the following research ... -
Knowledge management in learning software SMMEs in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2017)The study investigated the nature and causes of software development failures and knowledge management practices adopted to mitigate the failures in small, micro, and medium software developing enterprises (SMMEs) in the ... -
Perceptions of final year undergraduate education students about the influence of a reading culture on their academic achievement at selected universities in Tanzania.
(2017)The study investigated the perceptions of final year undergraduate education students about the influence of a reading culture on their academic achievement at selected universities in Tanzania. Four universities were ... -
eResearch support : an exploratory study of private university libraries in Nairobi County, Kenya.
(2019)This exploratory study was carried out in Nairobi County, Kenya to investigate the role of private university libraries in supporting eResearch. The study used a multiple-case study design involving six private chartered ... -
Provision of public library services to meet the information needs of rural dwellers in the North-Western zone of Nigeria.
(2019)The study examined the provision of public library services to meet the information needs of rural dwellers in the North-Western zone of Nigeria. The following research questions were addressed: What are the information ... -
Cataloguing practices from creation to use: a study of Cape Town Metropolitan Public Libraries in Western Cape Province, South Africa.
(2019)Cataloguing is the process of creating metadata representing information sources such as books, sound recordings, digital video disks (DVDs), journals and other materials found in a library or group of libraries. This ... -
Institutional repositories as platforms for open access in South African universities : the case of University of KwaZulu-Natal.
(2019)For a long time, academic libraries struggled to provide access to scholarly literature, including that which was produced by their own academic community due to paywalls. However, with the growth of internet technology ... -
Re-engineering research and innovation information in university libraries in Uganda for small and medium enterprises.
(2019)Globally, enormous amounts of research are generated in universities; however, in Uganda, not much of this research cascades to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) which contribute 75% of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product ... -
Knowledge management capability in nursing care performance in selected teaching hospitals in South-West Nigeria.
(2018)This study investigated knowledge management (KM) capability in nursing care performance in selected teaching hospitals in South-west, Nigeria. The specific objectives of the study were: to investigate the factors of KM ...
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