ICT Influence on Globalization of Library and Information Services Delivery in Academic Libraries in South West, Nigeria

Abstract

This paper examines the influence of ICT on globalization of library and information services delivery in academic libraries in south west, Nigeria. Seven public universities were randomly selected from the geo-political zone of Nigeria. Respondents are library officers and librarians working in the selected university libraries. A total of 130 copies of the questionnaire were administered on the respondents out of which 99 were returned and found useable for the data analysis. Data collected on the study were analyzed using simple percentages. The result reveals that the respondents are fully aware of what globalization entails and the benefits accruing from it to academic libraries; the libraries studied are automated, though only few of them are fully automated; the library softwares used are Koha, Virtual, Alice and Millennium; the most difficult challenges faced by the respondents in the use of ICT among other challenges are erratic power supply and low bandwidth.

Keywords: Academic libraries, Globalization, Information and Communication Technology, Library service delivery