ABSTRACT The use of mobile phones in everyday life has increased dramatically in recent years, making mobile phones a very integral part of our lifestyle. Namibia is amongst 105 countries with more cellular subscriptions than inhabitants. The increased ownership of smart phones and the affordability of mobile data packages offered more ways for banks to make even more services available such as, customer-to-customer direct payment services. Banks have rolled out this service under various na...
Abstract This is a report of an empirical study on the nature and characteristics of professional networking between and among librarians in Nigeria. The study population consisted of 334 LIS professionals who attended the July 2017 annual conference of the Nigerian Library Association (NLA) held at the University of Lagos. The study examined the channels used for professional networking among librarians, factors librarians consider before activating professional learning network; reasons fo...
Abstract The system will permit the network administrators to stay informed about the network behavior at the organization, that is to say it will determine and keep track of network traffic statistics, Further to that the system will also be in a position to calculate network speed at any given time, In addition to that, the software package will also push for notifications on network summary. Moreover the system will gather network statistics for easy troubleshooting by IT Technicians .The ...
ABSTRACT Network management of real time applications demands a new approach for an effective service quality provision. The traditional approach of network management based on Quality of Service (QoS) parameters like jitter, throughput, delay and loss cannot give enough details of how user quality demands. Therefore network management approach must start from user’s point of view to the network side. This kind of approach is called a user-centric network management approach which ensures t...
ABSTRACT Every organization depends on records to perform its activities and these records are managed by records personnel. Records personnel, like other employees, need to be satisfied with their jobs or there would be no motivation to work hard. In turn, hardworking employees contribute greatly to the success of every organization. The aim of this study was to examine the issue of job satisfaction among career records personnel in the Civil Service of Ghana. Civil Servants from twenty-sev...
ABSTRACT Modern trends in library settings particularly in the academic library environment require that academic libraries be positioned to provide remote and boundary-less access to their collections and services. Mobile Technologies (MT) have been embraced by stakeholders of academic libraries globally in recent times, as it is considered as a strong communication medium that can offer convenient library services to library patrons. The overall objective of this study was to ascertain the...
ABSTRACT The Road Maintenance Management Systems (RMMS) refers to a system used to process and store road and bridge inventory, traffic, condition, and related information, for highway and programming planning to enable sustainable use of roads. RMMS has been implemented in Tanzania for at most in all regions that compose the whole road network through keeping a road database, organizing a maintenance policy resultant for economic optimum and developing a maintenance multi-annual programming...
ABSTRACT Nowadays, Higher Learning Institutions (HLIs) store a large amount of students’ data. However, those data are not widely used to solve the academic problems of the students that are available at the HLIs such as poor performance of the students in some of the courses. Educational Data Mining (EDM) is the technology that can be applied to predict the performance of the students on the available dataset at the HLIs. This study intended to solve the problem of poor performance in Mat...
ABSTRACT The overall aim of this study is to investigate the use of community libraries in Namibia.
ABSTRACT This study explores the perceived impact of mass media campaigns in communicating information on HIV/AIDS prevention to in-school (ISY) and out-of-school youth (OOSY) in Oshana Region, northern Namibia. Mass media campaigns have become one of the acknowledged means for stemming the rapid spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Since the first case of HIV/AIDS was diagnosed in Namibia in 1986, HIV/AIDS has become the number one cause of hospitalisation and death among people of all ages and of...
ABSTRACT In striving to achieve good governance, organisations including Governments worldwide have been turning to information technologies. The conduct of business online has led to an increase in the creation of electronic records, which has brought about challenges in the management of records. This study, titled “A Study of Electronic Records Management in the Namibian Public Service in the Context of E-Government”, was based on the assumption that the Public Service of Namibia has ...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the information retrieval knowledge of the users of the National Earth Science and Energy Information Centre (NESEIC). The purpose of the study was to establish the gaps in the information retrieval knowledge of NESEIC users and the information skills NESEIC users require to search and locate relevant information from the NESEIC library systems. The study utilised a mixed method research design. Data was collected through interviews, observation and questionn...
ABSTRACT There has been a global acceptance of the need for students at all levels of education to acquire Information Literacy skills. Currently, there has been proliferation of information sources as information comes in various forms and it is prudent for every individual and especially students to be wise information users to assume greater control of their own learning. This study assesses the information literacy skills of students of Opoku Ware and Yaa Asantewaa Girls’ Senior High Sc...
Abstract This study investigated the information needs and seeking behaviour of pastors in Namibia. The purpose of the study was to establish the information required by pastors to carry out their work, how they seek information and the problems they encounter in doing so. A mixed-method approach research was used to meet the objectives of the study. A stratified quota sample of 200 pastors was used based on Walpole’s formula for proportions. One hundred and thirty-eight (69%) participants...
ABSTRACT The study looks at stress in university libraries. Universities have experienced exponential growth in student population as more programmes had been introduced lately. The increase had not been matched with infrastructure, staff and funding. This situation had made the job of the library very stressful. Stress, is referred to as a state of psychological and or physical imbalance resulting from the disparity resulting from the disparity between situational demand and the individual�...