New Imperatives for Librarianship in Africa

New Imperatives for Librarianship in Africa

C Challenges and Policy Imperatives for E-government in Africa

Government is a system of social control under which the right to make laws, and the right to enforce them, is vested in a particular group in society. Organizationally, governments may be classified into parliamentary or presidential systems, depending on the relationship between executive and legislature. Government may also be classified according to the distribution of power at different le...

the internet and imperatives for new forms of organizations

the role of information technology (it) in shaping tomorrow’s operations is a distinctive one. the internet is a pervasive phenomenon and it is commonly believed that the internet and its inherent distributed capabilities lead to decentralized views. they have had profound effects on organizational structure, because organizations can gain enormous location flexibility in various activities. wh...

Annual UNISA/IFLA Regional Office for Africa Lecture on African Librarianship in the 21

There is an abundance of evidence in the literature that corroborates the hypothesis that African librarianship has its roots in the colonial era. In developing African librarianship, the colonial masters set in place a library and information service infrastructure that propagated western philosophies and imperatives. As pointed out by duPlessis (2007), the colonial powers, to support their an...

Leadership in Librarianship

Two SURVEYS WERE ADMINISTERED to library professionals holding titular headships in order to develop a list of perceived library leaders. This list was used to learn the locus (subfield) of leadership and the degree of fieldwide integration as evidenced by the extent of shared perceptions by respondents. Results revealed that leaders tend to be associated most strongly with a category labeled “...