The main purpose of this study is to examine the effects of social media addiction on the reading culture of Nigerian students in higher institutions of learning. An online survey was sent to 1500 students of higher institutions in Nigeria during the Lockdown necessitated by the outbreak of the dreaded Corona Virus (COVID-19) Pandemic. A total of 1300 questionnaires were completed and returned. This implies an 86.7% return rate. Data were analyzed using graphical charts. The findings of the study showed that social media mostly used by the student include Facebook, followed by WhatsApp, YouTube, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram, WordPress, Snapchat, Reddit, respectively; while 75.3% of the students use the social media daily, 92.3% of them access the social media via their mobile phones. The study also found 97% using social media for the purpose of chatting with friends and family. While 79% of the students indicate they read mainly to pass exams, only 43% read books daily. 67.3% indicated that they rarely visit the library. A massive 84.4% strongly agreed that social media has a negative effect on reading habits. The researchers, therefore, concluded that as the world’s economy is becoming more knowledge-based, the future of the country is unpredictable except something drastic is done to tackle the decline headlong. It was therefore recommended that lecturers should use social media to teach, give assignments to students, and create reading groups. Libraries should make their services and resources accessible to students through their mobile devices. Seminars to motivate students to read and research should be organized. Parents should monitor their children reading at home and take their children out to libraries instead of shopping malls or cinemas.

This paper investigated the use of Google and Yahoo search engines in retrieving relevant information resources by Nigerian internet users. It was found that Nigerians prefer the search services of Google to Yahoo. This is because with Google search engine, they are able to retrieve the exact information that they need; they obtain more relevant and adequate information resources than Yahoo; Google is easier to use than Yahoo; and Google retrieves faster than Yahoo. Most Nigerian internet users have personal access through their mobile devices such as mobile phones, lap tops, palm tops etc. It was therefore recommended that Google should incorporate more Nigerian content to their knowledge base as most Nigerians depend on it to meet their information needs; while Telecommunication companies (such as Etisalat, MTN, Globacom, Airtel, Starcoms etc.) that offer internet services to Nigerians should make their services more efficient as they have emerged as the major internet service providers to Nigerians in the 21st century. Nigerian internet users are expected to continually up-date their search engine skills as more and more advances are made in the field of information retrieval.

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The focus of this paper is to provide a guide for the improvement of the Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku (DSPG) website for effective marketing cumglobal ranking. The paper specifically examined the roles of websites in higher education; analyzed the web presence and visibility of DSPG and also identify guidelines for improving the design, content and value of the website. The paper adopted both the quantitative and qualitative methods. Primary information was obtained from four major Search Engines Optimization (SEO) namely, Google, Google Scholar, Bing and Yahoo. Result of Google search shows that DSPG recorded 66,600 Hits in 2019 and 107,000 in 2020; Google Scholar search recorded 318 Hits in 2019 and 395 hits in 2020; Bing recorded 58,800 Hits in 2019 and 52,300 in 2020; while Yahoo! recorded 87,000 Hits in 2019 and 76,300 in 2020. The paper concluded that the institution’s current Webometrics ranking of 213 out of the 249 Nigerian institutions ranked will experience a tremendous improvement in both linkage operations and global competitiveness when the recommendations of this paper are carefully considered and implemented. Thus, it is recommended that a team comprising ICT experts, sound academics and web developers should be set up to oversee the management of the DSPG website for excellent results. In addition, the paper recommends that DSPG Management should encourage lecturers to publish their papers in highly rated open access journals in their various fields and also reconsider using www.ogwashi-ukupoly.edu.ng as the official web address in place of www.mydspg.edu.ng as it is amore fascinating, generally acceptable and effective web address that can leverage DSPG overall performance in line with global academic best practices.

The study’s general purpose is to assist both management and collection development practitioners in adopting appropriate strategies for integrating OA materials into libraries' collections. The study was designed to specifically examine the challenges to the integration of OAR into libraries' collections and to explore relevant strategies for the integration. The study utilized an online survey questionnaire sent to Seventy-Eight collections development staff drawn from academic libraries, Library Boards, and special libraries for completion. Sixty-Two (62) however, were completed and returned. This implies a 79.4% return rate. All the respondents surveyed are members of the Nigerian Library Association (NLA) and are certified by the Librarians Registration Council of Nigeria (LRCN). The respondents were drawn from Federal University Libraries (7), State university libraries (6), private university libraries (22), federal polytechnic libraries (5), state polytechnic libraries (12), college libraries (5), special libraries (2), library boards (3). The survey instrument included Eleven (11) items. Data were analyzed using graphical charts. The findings indicate that majority of the library does not acquire OAR but have plans to make them part of their regular library acquisition workflows; majority of them strongly agree that collection development policy is key to OAR integration, but they don’t have the document for now, neither are their staff trained to manage OA effectively. Their major challenge to OAR integration includes poor electricity supply, lack of knowledge and skills required for OA integration, and lack of support from the head librarian, lack of collection development policy document. The recommendations include that collection development policy should be put in place; library staff should be equipped with relevant skills through training and retraining; libraries should rather than purchasing expensive books and journals download OAR relevant to them, process them, and make them available to their users as part of their collections; Libraries should be provided with uninterrupted fast speed internet access and power supply from solar power.