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- ItemOpen AccessAcademic Women, Millennium Development Goals and libraries in Cosmopolitan Lagos Nigeria.(Nigerian Library Association, 2018-07) OA FadehanThe paper investigated the perception of academic women of the Millennium Development Goals MDGs) vis a vis the role that libraries had played in enhancing the functional participation of the women in achieving the goals. The paper investigated the perception of academic women of the MillenniumDevelopment Goals MDGs) vis a vis the role that libraries had played in enhancing the functional participation of the women in achieving the goals. The study adopted the survey research method with a purposive sampling of selected female academics in six (6) tertiary institutions; three universities and three polytechnics in Lagos State Nigeria. The study was guided by five objectives, five research questions and two hypotheses. The study tested among others, the level of awareness of the women academics of the MDGs perceived role of women in achieving the MDGs respondents’ perception of library role and usage and their effects on achieving the MDGs. The study established an awareness of the MDGs though peripheral. Also correlations were established between library role and usage and the achievement of the MDGs before and sustainable effects beyond year 2015.
- ItemOpen AccessInformation Source Accessibility and Usage as Determinants of Business Performance of Community Banks in Osun State, Nigeria.(Ghana Journal of Development Studies, 2010) O.A. FadehanThe paper discusses an investigation on the relationship between information source accessibility and business performance of the community banks over a six-year period. The Expost-Facto Survey design was used in collecting data from 258 managers of 43 functioning community banks at the time of study with a retrieval rate of 80%. The data were analyzed using both the descriptive and inferential statistics. Results revealed that the customer source was the most used of all the information sources. The personal sources were also preferred to the impersonal sources while information accessibility had a positive relationship with the banks’ business performance. The study therefore recommended the creation of greater awareness of information relevance and sourcing using formalized information packaging and managing systems.
- ItemOpen AccessINDEXING OF PUBLICATIONS(Ozean Journal of Social Sciences, 2010) O.A. FadehanThe paper attempted a pedagogical presentation of the art of indexing of publications using legal practitioners and law academics as the major audience. It further acknowledges the art of indexing as a prerogative of library and information professionals but uses this instance as a "do it yourself medium" for legal practitioners and law academics. The paper took cognizance of the general principles of indexing and consummated this by highlighting the special idiosyncracies of legal publications and legal indexing. The paper serves as a library instruction and reference service tool for legal practitioners and legal academics.
- ItemOpen AccessDocumenting genealogies(Library Trends., 0202) OA Fadehan; OO BarberThis article investigates the tracing and documentation of genealogies among the Yoruba of Southwest Nigeria using the semiological mechanism of tribal-facial marks. The study lends itself to qualitative research methods and called for the involvement of memory institutions (libraries, archives, and museums). A purposive sampling method, including a combination of focus group interviews and semistructured individual interviews, was deployed in the selection of four categories of participants. Data obtained were transcribed and analyzed using the recursive abstraction technique. The study established the indigenous practice of using indelible facial marks as a form of documentation and tracing of lineages and subethnic groups among the Yoruba. Although they are an endangered species, this study highlights some traditional methods of documentation and justifies a change in the narrative by advocating for an intensification of formalized documentation of the art vis-à-vis relevance to lineage and subethnic genealogies and situating the role of memory institutions in the project. Recommendations include intensive information harvesting and documentation enabled by the development of an active information policy that will take into cognizance various genres of indigenous knowledge systems, including tribal-facial marking systems, as a tool of genealogy.
- ItemOpen AccessEducational Needs of Librarians in the Digital Environment(Library Philosophy and Practice, 0201) O.A Fadehan, A. HussainThe study has been committed to investigating the librarians’ perception of their educational needs in the 21st century digital environment using a number of selected academic libraries in Lagos State, Nigeria as case studies. This has been done with a view to identifying the gaps and making recommendations as appropriate vis-à-vis the designing and modeling of digital education in Nigeria.