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  • Library Cataloguing: Relevance to Modern Library Users 
    Tirong arap Tanui (MCB UP Ltd, 1992-12)
    Reviews the role of libraries and of cataloguing within modern libraries in the light of research findings, automation and other changes. Stresses user needs and subject access.
  • Collection Development through Exchanges 
    Otike, Japhet (MCB UP Ltd, 1992-12)
    Provides a detailed account of the predicament of exchange librarians in developing countries. Publishing activity is relatively underdeveloped forcing the majority of the states to rely on foreign book imports. While ...
  • An overview of information systems in Kenya 
    Odini Cephas (MCB UP Ltd, 1993)
    Gives an overview of information and library systems in a developing African nation, Kenya. Highlights the prevailing local conditions. Discusses the national library system with particular reference to public, academic, ...
  • Setting up an Industrial Information Service 
    Odini Cephas (MCB UP Ltd, 1993)
    Every big company requires a good information service to serve its organizational interests in industrial trends, marketing intelligence, competitive intelligence and the interpretation of government regulations and policies ...
  • Trends in Information Needs and Use Research 
    Odini Cephas (MCB UP Ltd, 1993)
    Highlights the major trends in information needs and use in a survey of the literature from the later 1940s to the present time. The shortcomings of early studies, particularly questionnaire surveys, are found to be defective ...
  • Why Marketing?: The experience of Moi University Library, Kenya 
    Tirong arap Tanui; Kitoi Andrew S (MCB UP Ltd, 1993-12)
    Marketing is about the way in which an organization matches its own human, financial and physical resources to the wants of its customers. The Institute of Marketing defines marketing as “the management process responsible ...
  • Book Donations and Their Relevance to the Third World 
    Otike Japhet (Emerald, 1993-12)
  • Collection Development: The Experience of Kenya Polytechnic Library 
    Odini Cephas (MCB UP Ltd, 1994)
    Discusses fundamental problems encountered at the Kenya Polytechnic Library in collection development, particularly the problems of inadequate funding, lack of collection development policy and those associated with foreign ...
  • A Proposal for Change at Moi University Library: Staff Development, Training and Promotion 
    Khamadi, Shem Isindu Davidson Shem (1994)
    Discusses the aims and objectives of Moi University, a science and technology‐oriented institution of higher education. Outlines the mission of the university library, the aim of which is to support the entire university ...
  • Educating Users at Moi University Library 
    Odini Cephas (Sagepub.com, 1994-12-01)
    Various constraints affect the education of users at Moi University in Kenya. They can be overcome through proper planning and through integrating the programme into the university curriculum.
  • Stimulating the use of information in Kenya 
    Odini Cephas (1995)
    Identifies some of the factors that hinder information use in Kenya as the prevalence of inappropriate information systems, an unstimulating education system, high levels of illiteracy and the language barrier. Makes various ...
  • What is its future in Africa? 
    Tirong arap Tanui (MCB UP Ltd, 1995-01)
    CDROM technology, though inherently part and parcel of computer technology, is considered separately in regard to library/information automation in African libraries. Library automation is a much more complex and expensive ...
  • Staffing structures in the public library system in Kenya: a case for a new approach 
    Odini Cephas (1996)
    Outlines the structure of Kenya’s public library system and discusses its many short‐comings. Makes a case for a change to the team librarianship principle of staffing. Outlines the advantages to be gained from this approach, ...
  • The Provision of Legal Information to Rural Populations in Anglophone Africa 
    Otike Japhet (International Journal of Libraries and Information Studies, 1996-01)
    The article examines the provision of legal information to people in rural areas in the English speaking states of Africa. It is noted that very little has been done by the states in the region to provide this vital ...
  • The performance of manual indexes and online databases in information retrieval 
    Odini Cephas (Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 1997)
    Reports on a comparative study carried out at the University of Sheffield to compare the performance of some manual and online sources in the retrieval of records in the subject of technology. Compares the performance of ...
  • Legal information needs of the general public: With special reference to developing countries 
    Otike Japhet (MCB UP Ltd, 1997-02)
    Discusses the legal information requirements of members of the general public with particular emphasis on the needs of the Third World. Defines the members of the public and highlights the reasons prompting the public to ...
  • The construction and development of a library building: Moi University library/faculty building 
    Tirong arap Tanui; Ocholla Dennis (MCB UP Ltd, 1997-02)
    The management of building development and construction processes in various environments is not similar because of the magnitude, functions, location, materials used, cost and of course use of the building. Similarly, ...
  • Legal information needs of the general public 
    Otike, Japhet (MCB UP Ltd, 1997-02)
    Discusses the legal information requirements of members of the general public with particular emphasis on the needs of the Third World. Defines the members of the public and highlights the reasons prompting the public to ...
  • Getting books to school pupils in Africa 
    Radebe T; Sidibe AB; Amaral WD; Odini Cephas (econpapers.repec.org, 1998)
  • An overview of recent library and information developments in East Africa 
    Odini Cephas (MCB UP Ltd, 1998)
    The article gives an overview of recent library and information developments in East Africa. Discusses the prevailing local conditions and decries the declining state of libraries in East Africa. Highlights the initiatives ...

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