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    Disaster Management in Digital Libraries: Issues and Strategies in Developing Countries
    (International Journal of Risk and Contingency Management Volume 5 • Issue 1, 2016) Ifijeh, Goodluck; Idiegbeyan-ose, Jerome; Segun-Adeniran, Chidi D.; Ilogho, Julie
    The role of digital libraries in information generation,organization, dissemination and storage cannot be overemphasized. This article articulates the importance of digital libraries and the need to preserve them from disasters. It highlights the causes and effects of disasters in digital libraries. Prevention and management of disasters were also discussed. Issues and challenges around information and communication technology (ICT), that has direct bearings on digital libraries and disaster management in developing countries were raised. In addition, recommendations were made on how to improve on disaster prevention and control.
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    Challenges of disaster training: implication for federal and state university libraries in Nigeria
    (Disaster Prevention and Management Vol. 28 No. 3, (Emerald Publishing Limited), 2018) Ilo, Promise Ifeoma; Ngwuchukwu, Margaret; Michael-Onuoha, Happiness Chijioke; Segun-Adeniran, Chidi D.
    Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the challenges affecting disaster training in federal and state university libraries in Southwest Nigeria with a view to finding ways of overcoming them. Design/methodology/approach – Having adopted the descriptive research design, 14 university libraries (seven each of federal and state) were selected from the Southwest geo-political zone of Nigeria. The total enumeration sampling technique was employed. Questionnaire and interviewmethods were used for data collection. The three research questions that guided the study were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation and ranking. Judgments were drawn using real limit of numbers and 2.50 as criterion mean. Findings – Results emanated from the study showed that university libraries in the studied region are more equipped to fight fire disaster than any other emergency which is why fire drills and exercises are the prevailing disaster training received by library staff. It was also found that inadequate disaster facilities and equipment as well as poor funding were the greatest challenges confronting disaster training. The provision of adequate disaster facilities and equipment with the constitution of disaster prevention and response team was found as the most potent strategy for addressing the identified challenges. Originality/value – The study lends strong empirical evidence for the underlining factors affecting disaster training in federal and state university libraries as well as academic libraries in general. The strategies for addressing the identified challenges are of more significance.
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    Newspaper Coverage of Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic in Nigeria: Implications for Prevention and Control
    (Communication and Health, 2016) ASAOLU, Aderonke; IFIJEH, Goodluck; IWU-JAMES, Juliana; ODARO, Osayande
    Ebola virus disease (otherwise referred to as EVD) broke out in Nigeria in July, 2014. The epidemic which raged on for nearly three months, came to an end with the World Health Organization declaring Nigeria Ebola free in October, 2014. This study analyzed newspaper coverage of the epidemic during the period. It examined the nature and extent of coverage of EVD in three widely circulated newspapers in Nigeria. Between July, 2014 and October, 2014, 1118 articles about EVD in The Guardian, The Punch, and Vanguard newspapers were indentified and analyzed. The study revealed that the most common EVD theme covered by newspaper articles within the period was Government/ Institutional measures and response (271 articles), followed by cases of EVD in Nigeria (270 articles). Most importantly, the study observed that newspaper coverage of the EVD epidemic had implications for prevention and control, as portrayed by the commendations of individuals, corporate bodies and the Government.
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    Library Exhibition: A Veritable tool for Promoting Collections and Services in Nigerian Libraries
    (international Journal of Academic Library and Information Science, 2015) ASAOLU, Aderonke Olufunke; FAGBOHUN, Michael Opeoluwa; OSINULU, Ifeakachuku
    This study investigated exhibition practices and challenges militating against it in Nigerian libraries. The study employed case study approach and 29 libraries were represented. Data collection instrument was a structured questionnaire which was administered at Nigeria Library Association (NLA) Cataloguing, Indexing and Classification Section workshop held in Makurdi, Benue State in year 2013, and method of data analysis was simple percentages. The study revealed that majority of Nigerian libraries (62.1%) were currently involved in exhibition and displays, 69% of libraries hold only physical exhibition, 45% frequently hold exhibitions between 3 – 6 months while others (58.6%) lasted between 1 – 4 weeks. The purpose of exhibition include: education, awareness, increased sense of aesthetic and promotion of available resources. Lack of exhibition policy (96.6%), lack of display equipment (93.1%), lack of formal training 86.2%, and inadequate resources – money, space (82.8%) were identified as inhibitors to library exhibition and displays in Nigeria. Physical exhibition and display is predominant. There is a need to explore the use of electronic resources, social networking sites and the Internet for online exhibition. The management of Nigerian libraries should provide exhibition guidelines, display equipment and materials needed for mounting exhibition, training for exhibit librarians and library schools should incorporate exhibition into the curriculum.
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    Handing Issues of Backlog: the Covenant University Library Experience
    (2014) ASAOLU, Aderonke O.; Idiegbeyan-Ose, J.
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    USE OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS BY POST GRADUATE STUDENTS I N SELECTED UNIVERSITIES IN SOUTH WEST, NIGERIA
    (Nigerian Library Association, Ebonyi State, 2016) ASAOLU, Aderonke O.; ANYANWU, Glory Ebataivohi; ADEBAYO, Oyeronke; ESSE, Ugwunwa Chinyere; ITSEKOR, Victoria 0.