Professional development in private university libraries in Ghana

Dzandza, Patience Emefa; Akussah, Harry

doi:10.1108/lm-06-2017-0055

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“…Promising as these findings are, some lapses are still clearly visible. The words of Dzandza and Akussah (2018) that some library staff in private universities in Ghana were not allowed to attend professional development programmes and that majority of the private universities there did not have in-house CPD activities, should have no foot-hold in any academic institution in Botswana.…”

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“…Owusu-Acheaw claimed that the study revealed that professional development programmes were associated with challenges such as lack of finance and inadequate budget. In a similar study in Ghana, Dzandza and Akussah (2018) revealed that not all library workforce in the private universities were allowed to attend professional development programmes. They deplorably alerted that none of the private universities studied had a policy on CPD and only three institutions made budgetary allocation to CPD programmes.…”

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An assessment of education and continuing professional development (CPD) of academic libraries workforce in Botswana

Oladokun

Mooko

Fidzani

2020

GKMC

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to assess the current level of education qualifications of the workforce working in academic libraries in Botswana. The study also aims to determine the current and required level of continuing professional development (CPD) of librarians working in academic libraries in Botswana. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted positivist research paradigm and quantitative research design using a structured questionnaire to collect data, where survey questions were developed based on existing, tested and verified NeXus1 and NeXus2 instruments developed in Australia. Findings Findings revealed that majority (41 or 35.3%) of the academic workforce in Botswana had first degree professional qualification, while those with diploma qualification were 28 or 24.1%; about a quarter of respondents had obtained master’s degree qualification. Most of the CPD activities undertaken were workshops and other workplace training programmes. While about half of the total respondents had attended conferences, less than half of them had published or presented a paper, and mentoring, that should have been given a pride of place in the libraries, largely suffers near neglect. Some knowledge and skills have been acquired on the job and have beneficial impact in the service rendered. Originality/value The study seems to be the first of its type in Botswana as a thorough search of literature did not yield any result in the field. What is more, it combines the librarians in public and private universities, colleges of education and institutes of health sciences. Recommendations generated from the findings are likely to improve the services rendered and interest of the librarians in the profession.

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An assessment of education and continuing professional development (CPD) of academic libraries workforce in Botswana

Oladokun

Mooko

Fidzani

2020

GKMC

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“…Libraries in Ghana have realized that they have the likely hood of deploying cloud computing to expand their ICT adoption [62]. Similarly in Nigeria, the academic libraries' acceptance of cloud computing is at the low-level stage [63]. The challenges related to the adoption of automation systems in libraries using all sorts of ICT from all anglophone countries are almost the same as those discovered by [61].…”

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Exploring the empirical studies of cloud computing adoption in anglophone West African countries’ academic libraries: a review

Yakubu

Kassim²,

Husin

2023

International Conference on Mathematical and Statistical Physics, Computational Science, Education, and Communication (ICMSCE 2

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Cloud computing offer an important role in almost all online transactional activities that involve a substantial exchange of information. However, studies have revealed that despite the important roles of cloud computing, most libraries in higher educational institutions in some West African Countries have not adopted the technology. Additionally, existing empirical studies on the adoption of cloud computing in English-speaking countries of West African academic libraries are low and vary from one country to another as well as from one geo-political region to the other. This necessitates the need to explore the existing empirical studies which were carried out on the adoption of cloud computing level and its impact in academic libraries in West Africa such as Ghana, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria. Several online academic databases were used as sources of data for this study using relevant keywords. As such, this study reviewed the existing empirical research on cloud computing acceptance within West Africa which revealed varying results concerning cloud computing acceptance in academic libraries. results revealed that the majority of the existing studies of cloud computing in academic libraries were found to be focused in Nigeria, and the findings further revealed that the Southern and Eastern parts of Nigeria have more studies compared to the other parts. Based on this outcome, this study recommends additional empirical study to be conducted on cloud computing adoption among the Anglophone Countries of West African academic libraries, as the factors for technology adoption may likely differ from one area to the other.

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“…Chioma appraised the "Use of Electronic Security Systems in the Security of Information Resources in Federal University Libraries in Southern Nigeria" and suggested that if libraries could overcome the challenges of using electronic security systems, threats to library information resources would be a thing of the past. Dzandza (2019) carried out a study in Ghana using the DeLone and McLean (2003) IS Success Theory to determine the impact of IS management on the quality of the IS, the use of the IS, and the benefits gained. The researcher used nine (30%) out of the 30 university libraries which are members of the consortium of academic and research libraries in Ghana (CARLIGH).…”

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Constraints Facing African Academic Libraries in Applying Electronic Security Systems to Protect Library Materials

Kotoroi

2023

IJoL

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This article reviews published literature to identify factors that impede the application of electronic security systems (ESSs) in protecting library materials in African academic libraries. The information for the study was gathered through a review of online literature from databases, namely ProQuest, EBSCO, Emerald, Library Literature, Research Gate Information, and Google search engine. The scope of the literature covered the time when African academic libraries began to use ESSs to protect their collections to the present. It covered only literature that addresses the challenges that hinder African academic libraries from utilizing ESSs to protect library materials. Information was collected by reading the abstracts and conclusion of the online documents. In the beginning, a total of 91 articles were collected as a population of the study. However, only fifty-four (54) articles were found to be relevant to the area of the study. Basic keywords and advanced searching, namely truncations, headings, Boolean operators, electronic security systems, academic libraries, security, African Libraries, theft and mutilation were also used to get relevant literature on the topic from peer-reviewed and scholarly resources. Based on the findings of the reviewed literatures it is concluded that African academic libraries undergo nearly the same challenges where most of which can be addressed because they are generated by the managements, library staff and the environment in which the libraries operate rather than the ESSs. The researcher recommends that African academic library managements should cope with the technological changes so as to compete with the market demand. With that regard, the reported ESSs challenges facing African academic libraries should be aggressively addressed in order to make the application of ESSs effective. Equally, another study should be carried out to inform about the ramifications of not addressing electronic security systems.

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Professional development in private university libraries in Ghana

Cited by 11 publications

References 16 publications

An assessment of education and continuing professional development (CPD) of academic libraries workforce in Botswana

An assessment of education and continuing professional development (CPD) of academic libraries workforce in Botswana

Exploring the empirical studies of cloud computing adoption in anglophone West African countries’ academic libraries: a review

Constraints Facing African Academic Libraries in Applying Electronic Security Systems to Protect Library Materials

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