Examination of the use of information technology applications for online searching: the case of the University of Dar es Salaam Library

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dc.contributor.authorAugustino, Daniel Mhando
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-21T20:02:14Z
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-08T09:08:09Z
dc.date.available2019-10-21T20:02:14Z
dc.date.available2020-01-08T09:08:09Z
dc.date.issued2000
dc.descriptionAvailable in print form, East Africana Collection, Dr. Wilbert Chagula Library, Class mark (THS EAF Z699.T34A93)en_US
dc.description.abstractThe use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is now wide spread in various sectors, including libraries and information centres. At the University of Dar es Salaam library in Tanzania ICT facilitates the availability of information to Library users. The adoption, use and application of ICT at the University of Dar es Salaam library was intended to enable users to have access to online and electronic reference materials for their academic endeavours. Application of ICT facilities at the University library is still in its infant stages, though the number of users has been increasing steadly. This study looked at how ICT allows students to have access to a variety of reference materials other than books. However, findings of this study show that most users do not take full advantage of the available facilities to retrieve online information, instead they use ICT for communication purposes especially corresponding using the Internet. The failure by the students to utilize ICT effectively for information retrieval could be attributed to lack of information searching and retrieval skills. Therefore there is a need to introduce bibliographic instruction programmes to allow students to take full advantage of ICT facilities at the University library to solve the problem of shortage of reference books and current literature.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAugustino, D. M. (2000) Examination of the use of information technology applications for online searching: the case of the University of Dar es Salaam Library, Master dissertation, University of Dar es Salaam. Dar es Salaamen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/3776
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Dar es Salaamen_US
dc.subjectInformation technologyen_US
dc.subjectStudy and teachingen_US
dc.subjectTanzaniaen_US
dc.subjectOnline bibliographic searchingen_US
dc.subjectMachine readable bibliographic dataen_US
dc.subjectUniversity of Dar es Salaam Libraryen_US
dc.titleExamination of the use of information technology applications for online searching: the case of the University of Dar es Salaam Libraryen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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