Opportunities and Challenges of Automation Experience by some Academic Libraries in Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa A Perspective on West Africa.

Abstract

The UNESCO’s programme: Empowering Information Professionals: on Information and Communication Technologies (EIPICT) defines library automation as the application of ICTs to library operations and services: viz., the acquisition, cataloguing, public access, indexing and abstracting, circulation, serials management, and reference functions (UNESCO EIPICT, 2013:)