School of Information Sciences: Recent submissions

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Otike Japhet (Sagepub.com, 1989-04-01)
    The school library situation in Kenya is on the whole gloomy. Only a handful of schools can afford to employ professional librarians. Out of a total of three thousand secondary schools in Kenya, less than forty have positions ...
  • Otike Japhet (Sagepub.com, 1989-01)
    Examines the problems facing bibliographic control in Kenya, including the current state of publishing and legal deposit and the production of the Kenya National Bibliography. There is a need to coordinate the activities ...
  • Otike Japhet (Sagepub.com, 1989-01-01)
    The article analyses current library cooperation in Kenya. In an attempt to understand the situation, a brief account of the country's information infrastructure is provided. Effort has been made to provide a detailed ...
  • Otike Japhet (Collection Management, 1989-01)
    This work examines the accessibility of indigenous materials to libraries and information centres in Kenya. An attempt is made to define the term "indigenous materials." Sources of materials are examined, and methods of ...
  • Otike Japhet (International Library RevieW, 1989-06)
    This article provides a detailed account of the education and training of Information workers in Hast Africa. A background account pertaining to Information training in the region is provided. It is noted that two out of ...
  • Otike Japhet (1990-03)
    his article provides a detailed account of resource sharing in special libraries in Kenya. A brief definition of special libraries is provided, and the characteristics of these libraries highlighted. The current position ...
  • Otike Japhet (International Library RevieW, 1990-09)
    The article provides a detailed account of the challenges of an information professional in a special library. Reference has been made to a developing country simply because librarians in the third world have yet to be ...
  • Otike Japhet (MCB UP Ltd, 1990-12)
    An account is given of the current position in document reproduction and supply in the three East African states of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. A brief account is given of the region′s library/information infrastructure ...
  • Otike Japhet (MCB UP Ltd, 1992-12)
    Examines existing systems for the exchange of information materials in East Africa, and notes the lack of formal co‐operation. Considers the library and information infrastructure, and notes widespread informal arrangements ...
  • 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 ...
  • Otike Japhet (International Library RevieW, 1987-10)
  • Otike Japhet (International Library RevieW, 1987-07)
  • Otike Japhet (MCB UP Ltd, 1987-03)
    This article opens with an examination of the information system in Kenya and goes on to highlight the lack of formal co-operative agreements in the country's library system. An obstacle to resource sharing is the desire ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Otike Japhet (Taylor & Francis Online Journals, 1999)
    This article investigates the information needs and seeking habits of lawyers in England in the United Kingdom. Specifically, it seeks to ascertain the type of information lawyers require to meet their needs; the reasons ...
  • Otike Japhet; Graham Matthews (MCB UP Ltd, 2000)
    Reports the results of a case study undertaken as part of a doctoral research programme carried out to investigate the information needs of, and provision to, the legal community in Kenya. The case study, is based on data ...
  • Erima Juliet A.; Masai Winnie C.; Wosyanju M. G. (Academic hosting and events, 2016-04)
    Knowledge and information are necessary bonding agents for human development and progress. Those with greater capacity to create, access and disseminate knowledge and information ultimately gain a competitive edge in ...

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