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Unit 11: Library Reports
format and presentation. Check for consistency in numbering of chapters, sections and appendices. Notes
Make sure that all your sources are acknowledged and correctly referenced. You will need to
proof read your report for errors of spelling or grammar. If time allows, proof read more than
once. Errors in presentation or expression create a poor impression and can make the report
difficult to read.
Task Prepare a sample report.
Self Assessment
State whether the following statements are true or false:
13. All reports need to be clear, concise and well structured.
14. Writing style must not be direct and precise.
15. Chapters, sections and even individual paragraphs should be written with a clear structure.
16. Writing on a word processor makes it easier to rewrite and rearrange sections or paragraphs
in your first draft.
Case Study Information Technology in Nigerian Academic
Libraries
he demand for distant education in Nigeria is increasing, although this is still
based on the traditional technology of print media. Thus, there is the need to
Tintegrate IT into the distant education programme. Majority of higher institutions
in Nigeria, even those with good Internet connectivity, are still at a low level of integration
of ICT in teaching, learning, research, library, information and managerial services
(Ogunsola, 2004). Ekong (2005) pointed out however that in some of the first generation
university libraries, University of Benin Library, Kashim Ibrahim Library (ABU), University
of Nigeria Nsukka Library and a few others, digitalization is taking place in many of their
libraries and library information networks are established with connectivity through the
university campus network to the Internet. The Centre for Learning Resources (CLR)
Covenant University, Ota has been placed on the platform of full application of ICT
because funds are made available for such innovations. Ogunsola (2004) explained that
some Nigerian University campuses are now jam-packed with IT facilities. It is no longer
strange to see lecturers and students doing their research and other academic works using
various IT devices like e-mail and the Internet. Students can absorb more information and
take less time to do so with the use of IT. Ogunsola (2004) declared that librarians or any
member of the academic community at Obafemi Awolowo University Library can now
easily find information concerning any book in the Library of Congress in the US.
University libraries can be transformed into a new information services unit, proving
electronic cataloguing, OPAC, electronics acquisition/serials control, electronic inter-
library loan and calculation functions (Ogunsola, 2004). Nigerian academic libraries should
not be left out of this global educational revolution. Ekong (2005) pointed out that one is
also happily to note that both the Federal Government of Nigeria and International funding
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