ICT in Information Management. Library & Info. Sci

2006-11-09T08:19:00.000-08:00

ICI NEEDS ASSESSMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION WOMEN A CASE STUDY OF LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY (LASU) WOMEN ACADEMICS, OJO CAMPUS, NIGERIA
BY

MRS BOSEDE OYETEJU AMOO
REVIEW
BY
MOHAMMED, BILKISU
REG.NO:MLS/EDU/58967/05/06
DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE

INTRODUCTION
Bosede oyeteju Amoo (Mrs) Ag. Director, Educational Technology centre, Lagos state University, Ojo Nigeria. This article was presented at first conference on women and ICT Challenges and opportunities Road to Tunis 2005.
This paper intends to report a survey study on the women academics of Lagos state university (LASU) Nigeria, in terms of their Basic Knowledge and Application of ICT to enhance their professional Skills of teaching and research. It also submitted a report on the specific ICT training need of the population under study, based on the data collected.
The sample population is LASU women in the academics across the faculties in Ojo campus. The instrument for survey research is a questionnaire generated from a pool of computers skills checklist on the web, the questionnaire was designed to inquire about:
1. Basic Essential computer skills which include basic operations, the use of general commands on the computer application of disks, folders, documents and house keeping.
2. Specific computer skills a break down of the basic skills, above to ensure that they give accurate information about the skills they are experienced with.
These include:
A. keyboard mouse and related skills
b. Desktop competencies i.e. windows competencies writing and word processing competencies as well as presentation competencies
c. Internet competencies i.e. communications competencies, Data retrieval and manipulation competencies.
In addition, the general information gave an over view of the type of computers they have acquired, their e-mail addresses and the frequency of checking their mails on the website.
The questionnaire was personally distributed to the female academics on campus and was collected on the spot.
Findings
The data was analysed using the mean percentage of the frequency counts for each option. The following are the result.
General Information
From the analysis 90% of the women have personal computers, about 5% have laptops, while 5% have none and about 17% have both PC and laptops. 90% of them have e-mail addresses while the rest have none. Also, it is interesting to find out that 10% of the women check their mails everyday, 38% twice a week, 33% check their mails occasionally while 19% cannot check their mail on their own. This shows that even though most of the women have purchased computers, some are yet to even learn how to use it to perform simple operations. In discussing with the women while they were filling the questionnaire, some of them mentioned that they were either assisted by their children or their husbands to operate them computer and to check their mails.
The results show that the women academics in LASU have not been using some of the new technology to update their skills and knowledge and to enhance teaching and learning of higher education students. The Nigeria policy on education expects teachers at various levels of the educational system to be versatile in the teaching learning activities. The policy expected teachers to apply new technologies during class room interactions.
To enhance this policy the National University Commission of Nigeria Organised an on- line in -service training programme of 9 modules in 2003/2004 to enhance higher education teaching competencies of the university teachers. Only of the modulus trained on the application of old and new technologies for teaching. Only two of the women academics in LASU participated fully in the programme. Apart from the busy schedule of some of the academics especially those who are saddled with administrative responsibilities, the power supply is not regular to motivate the application of these new technologies
In LASU, the internet facilities available are owned by the university. It is private and is being managed by the company. At times the facilities are not available for month even when the women are not on the campus, they do not have regular access to internet facility, the policy can not be effective because policy are being made without adequate provision.

Recommendation and Conclusion
The University should make adequate facilities to enhance teaching and learning in higher education and provision should be made adequate along with the any policy for proper administration, The women of LASU should be sent for training on how to search for academic information on the internet and effective ways of using new technology to be able to impact new knowledge on their students.
The international organisation like African information technology education trust can also assist in the donation of computers to educational technology center to enhance the training of women on ICT skills with LASU and internet facilities so that ICT and women can be discussed globally, but will also need global support and appropriate networking to implement locally.

2006-11-09T08:11:00.000-08:00

women and ict in logos state university rewiew work

2006-11-03T01:08:00.000-08:00

AKILU MUHAMMAD RIBI
MLS/EDUC/49789/05-06
ICT IN INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
LIBS 712

ASSIGNMENT: Review of a paper titled- “INNOVATION SYSTEMS AND
THE LEARNING PROCESS”

The paper highlights the opportunities offered by ICTs in the social and economic transformations of societies, as evident in the new ways of learning are giving rise to innovative knowledge networks which is facilitating the creation and exchange of information in industrialised countries.
The main focus of the paper is on how people in public and private sectors are learning to organise and manage ICTs, and how this is affecting the production of knowledge and its distribution, and the impact of ICTs in product and process innovations in the manufacturing sector.
Specific experiences from both industrialised and developing countries were illustrated. It provides insight into the process of organisational learning and the importance of linkages and how the linkages and the learning process are changing with application of ICTs.
The first section looks at the new modes of knowledge production that are emerging in the industrialised countries and considers their implications for developing countries.
The second section considers the growing importance of linkages and how it is affected by the application of ICTs.
Other sections of the paper considers among other things the issue of skills and capabilities needed for the productive use of ICTs. China was particularly taken as a case study in the area of management of organisational change and technological innovations. Its impact on the Chinese economic growth was dismissed extensively.
Finally, emphasis is laid on the types of knowledge needed for innovative ICT application.
It is an undisputable fact that knowledge is the bedrock of any society be it social, economic or technological. For any society to be part of the global knowledge and information society, it must have to adopt the acquisition and application of ICT in its knowledge acquisition and production skills. This will in turn translate into technological innovations for meaningful growth and development, as evident in the case of China. This is indeed a wake up call for Nigeria and other developing nations.

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AKILU MUHAMMAD RIBI
MLS/EDUC/49789/05-06
ICT IN INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
LIBS 712

ASSIGNMENT: Notes on Wikki, Blog, List Serv, Newsgroup,
Mailing list

1. WIKKI:
This is a website that allows the users to easily add, remove or edit and change some available content, sometimes without need for registration. This makes wiki an effective tool for collaborative authoring.
The term “wikki” also refers to the collaborative software that facilitates the operation of such a website or to certain specific wiki sites, including the wikiwiki web and the wikipedia. The word is sometimes interpreted as the backronym for “what I know is”, which describes the knowledge contribution, storage and exchange function.
In this century, wikis were increasingly adopted in the collaborative software. Today some companies use it as their only replacement for static intranets.
A wiki is an editable website that does not require users to know HTML. Many have a system to record changes at any time, a page can be reverted to its original format, and has tools that enable users to monitor changes constantly.
A wiki enable documents to be written, collectively in a simple makeup language using a web browser. A simple page is referred to as a “wiki page”, while the entire body of pages is the “wiki”. It is actually a simple user-maintained database for searching or even creating information. It’s defining characteristics is the ease with which pages can be created and updated.

2. BLOG:
The term “weblog” was coined by Jorn Barger in Dec 17, 1997. The short form “blog” was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word ‘weblog’ into the phrase ‘we blog’ on the side bar of his blog. Peterme.com in 1999. This was quickly adopted as both noun and verb – ‘to blog’ meanings to ‘to edit one’s weblog’ or ‘to post to one’s weblog’.
Early weblogs were simply manually updated components of common websites. However, the evolution of tools to facilitate the production and maintenance of websites posted in said chronological fashion made the publishing process feasible to a much larger and technical population. This resulted in the distinct class of online publishing that produced the blogs recognised today. The use of some sort of browser-based software is now a typical aspect of ‘blogging”. Blogs can be listed by dedicated blog hosting services or they can be run using blog software as blogger or live journal or regular web hosting services, as ‘Dream Host’.
The modern blog evolved from the online diary where people would keep running account of their personal lives. Most of such writers call themselves diarists, journalists or journalers. A few call themselves Escribitionists.
Blogging combined the personal web page with tools to make linking to other pages easier – specifically, blogrolls and trackbacks. This, with weblog search engine enable bloggers to track the threads that connect them to others with similar interest.
These are different types of blogs depending on the
a. Content
b. Media type – Vlog, linklog, photolog
c. Device – Moblog e.g mobile phone in PDA
d. Genre – Subject e.g political blog or travel blog
e. Legal status – private or business.

3. LIST SERV:
Is an automatic mailing list server developed by Eric Thomas for BITNET in 1986. When e-mail is addressed to a LIST SERV mailing list, it is automatically broadcast to everyone on the list. The result is similar to a group, a newsgroup or forum, except that the messages are transmitted as e-mail and are therefore available only to individuals on the list.
A list serv. is a software that distributes resources available to the mailing list and automatically manage the list e.g BITNET.

4. MAILING LIST
Is a group of users with a shared interest whose e-mail addresses are converted together in an electronic list that can be used to send e-mail to each member on the list. The key to a mailing list is a program called a list server, which receives and distributes postings, and automatically manages subscriptions.
Mailing list provides a forum for users from all over the world to ask questions and have them answered by others with similar interest. They can be a good place to get specialised, difficult-to-obtain information. They are also good vehicles for discussion, and covers nearly every imaginable subject.
To participate you only have to know how to use e-mail, you do not need to learn any new software. This is unlike newsgroup which you must learn to operate newsreader.

5. NEWSGROUP:
This is a discussion group in which computer users throughout the world participate. Users interested in a particular topic may subscribe to the same newsgroup. Barriers such as age, gender etc. do not play any role in discussions because users see only messages from each other; usually someone e-mail a message called ‘an article’ to the group at any time. The message then becomes available for others to read. They can then respond to the article, showing their opinion and expertise. This in turn will stimulate others to respond. In this way, a question or an opinion can create a lively and lengthy discussion.

REFERENCES
1. GREENLAW, R. and HEPP, E. (2000)
In-Line/On-Line: Fundamentals of the Internet and the World Wide Web.
New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill Pub. Co. Ltd.

2. ‘Wiki’-Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki Sept 24, 2006.

3. ‘Log’ – Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
http://en.wikipdia.org/wiki/Blog. Sept 24, 2006.

4. ‘What is Listserv?’ – A Word Definition from Webopedia Computer
Dictionary. http://www.webopedia.com/term/L/listserv.html. Sept 24, 2006.

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ICT in Information Management. Library & Info. Sci

2006-10-13T06:19:00.000-07:00

DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA.

REVIEW OF CHAPTER 5 OF A BOOK

THE CHAPTER TITTLE: The potential uses of ICTs for sustainable development

BY: SHAIBU ADONA SADIKU
MLS/EDU/52498/2005-06

The chapter highlights some of the more advanced ICT applications that are the development phase. In some cases, these are being implemented in the industrialized Countries and in some of the wealthier and large developing countries. With appropriate policies and ICT strategies these application could become available to all developing countries. To a limited extent, they are already in use to strengthen the prospects for sustainable development.

The review focuses on applications that are facilitating public and private services in public administration, urban and rural development, and transport sector [section 5.2]. section 5.3addresses the potential benefits of ICTs in improving the quality of life for citizens, especially in the health, special needs , education environment, and agriculture sector. Section 5.4 turns to the roles of ICT in improving access to public information. Section 5.5 examines the application of ICT in transportation of business sector and in such areas as manufacturing, electronic commerce, and travels and tourism industry. Section 5.6 concludes with an overview of the potential social and economic impact of the new applications and considers the extent to which these potentials might be turned into a realty for the developing countries.

2006-09-19T02:48:00.000-07:00

Welcome to ICT in Information Management!
The purpose of this Blog is to enable the students of Masters in Library Science of the Department of Library and Information Science, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria Nigeria engage in Intellectual discuss on the application of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in Information Management and the development of a knowledge society.
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Lecturer