Papers by Hussaini SULEIMAN, Ph.D
Nigerian Journal For Rural Finance and Entrepreneurship (NJRFE)), 2024
In librarianship, entrepreneurship entails using cutting-edge methods to guarantee sustainability... more In librarianship, entrepreneurship entails using cutting-edge methods to guarantee sustainability, boost user satisfaction, and improve library services, and striking a balance. The purpose of this paper titled "Roles of Entrepreneurship in Librarianship: Opportunities and Challenges," was to provide a thorough understanding of the current situation entrepreneurship plays in Librarianship and to pinpoint the chances and obstacles that stand in the way of entrepreneurship in librarianship. This paper listed a few funding possibilities for librarianship entrepreneurship, including retained earnings, angel investors, venture capital, Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), personal savings, and crowdfunding. It examined the functions that entrepreneurship performs in the field of librarianship, including problemsolving and creativity, marketing and promotion, and locating new financing sources. It highlighted a few of the benefits of becoming an entrepreneurial Librarian, including resource management, community involvement, and innovation and technology integration. Along with highlighting some of the challenges faced by entrepreneurial Librarians including financial risk, business savvy, rivalry, work-life balance, marketing, and sales. It concluded that, through its promotion of innovation, enhancement of services, and response to the changing requirements of patrons, entrepreneurship would play a pivotal role in determining the future of librarianship. Incorporating entrepreneurial ideas can result in innovative problem-solving, improved user experiences, and long-term library expansion. It provided way forward such as Curriculum
Research on humanities and social sciences, 2015
This research work was carried out to determine The Impact of Internet on Students of National In... more This research work was carried out to determine The Impact of Internet on Students of National Institute Zaria Centre, Nigeria. The population of the study was the students of National Teachers’ Institute, Zaria Centre, Nigeria. Survey method of the research and stratified random sampling was used for the study to select 120 postgraduate students for the study. However, 100 respondents responded to the questionnaires distributed. The data was presented and analyzed in tables and percentages. The research discovered that majority of the students spend about 2 hours on daily basis to browse on internet. The research reveals that majority of the students are computer and internet literate. The research further reveals that most of students joy using e-mail and Web browsing as their favourite internet services. It also reveals that online activities has positive impact on the students and also has influenced the accessibility of online information usage of students in National Teachers’...
Journal of information management, 2022
International Journal of Advance Research in Science, 2018
The advancement of Information Communication Technology has brought change to the operations of l... more The advancement of Information Communication Technology has brought change to the operations of library services in many academic libraries in Nigeria, from traditional methods to a modernized way with the computerization of library activities. The paper looks into library automation for enhanced users' satisfaction of library services via acquisition, circulation, online Public Access catalogue, Catalogue and serial control. The paper would help academic libraries in Nigeria who have partially automated or those that have not yet automated their library activities to fully embrace it so as to satisfy the information of needs of the users by providing efficient library services. It also highlighted some rationale and requirement for the successful implementation of library automation in academic libraries in Nigeria and how best to tackle the challenges confronting libraries in an academic setting. It concludes by urging the management/Stakeholders of all the academic libraries in Nigeria to carefully plan and implement high quality library and information services due to the growing demand of users and the changing social and technological environment of the present era.
This research work was carried out to determine The Impact of Internet on Students of National In... more This research work was carried out to determine The Impact of Internet on Students of National Institute Zaria Centre, Nigeria. The population of the study was the students of National Teachers' Institute, Zaria Centre, Nigeria. Survey method of the research and stratified random sampling was used for the study to select 120 postgraduate students for the study. However, 100 respondents responded to the questionnaires distributed. The data was presented and analyzed in tables and percentages. The research discovered that majority of the students spend about 2 hours on daily basis to browse on internet. The research reveals that majority of the students are computer and internet literate. The research further reveals that most of students joy using e-mail and Web browsing as their favourite internet services. It also reveals that online activities has positive impact on the students and also has influenced the accessibility of online information usage of students in National Teachers' Institute Zaria Centre, Nigeria. This implies that most of the students are internet users. 1. INTRODUCTION In the past two decades, the personal computer has played a significant role in our everyday lives. With the growth in popularity and networking of computers, intercommunication between different computers became easier, which led to the phenomenon called Internet. It is the most talked about computer technology. The Internet has irrevocably invaded many aspects of daily life. What was once an obscure scientific research tool has blossomed into a communication plat form used by hundreds of millions of people, Telecom providers use the internet to carry critical voice communications. Banking institutions use it to provide access to account services and market trading. Airline tickets, hotel reservations and car rentals can all be booked with a click of the mouse. More users than ever depend on the internet to connect with family and colleagues using email, instant messaging, voice over IP, photo and video sharing services and online journals. The new technology and communication tools that are available today are much more powerful than those available even a few years ago. According to Abbottabad (2008) the channel for access and distribution of information and knowledge are much more diverse, they collapse the waiting time and provide more tools directly to the users. However, the internet as the world's largest network on information communication and services has changed the way we live and work. The advent if this technology has fundamentally transformed our lives the way the invention of automobile changed how our lives and cities looked and worked before. The maxim that " half the world does not know how the other lives " longer true. As a result the internet is in transition, perhaps the greatest in its history. Originally the internet was concerned with text-based interfaces and keyboard control of remote computers, because of the limited informational capability of the network. It has evolved into a robust and sophisticated system with an informational capacity and computational power that its originator could have scarcely dreamed of. As a result, the internet components are increasingly becoming graphical in nature. High resolution graphics, formatted text, hyper-links, and mouse-driven interfaces are rapidly becoming the standard in much of the community. One interesting medium of today's communication in the world today is the invention of the internet. The internet is also an ideal environment that permits the effective integration of distributed and heterogeneous components, ensuring overall integrity in terms of functional and information inter-working. The popularization and accessibility of internet is changing the way students of National Teachers' Institute Zaria Centre, Nigeria search for information. The impact of internet on the students varied from institute to institute, but it is in constant evolution from a tool to connect people to information, to a social networking vehicle that is changing the way people in all countries communicate with each other. The internet is a term applied to an electric network that permits access to thousands of computer network globally this is because it allows communication with millions of computer used for connection to the internet, a virtually limitless wealth of resources is available for everyday gender, education, occupation, income and even geographical region, with some of the generals conclusions being that males students are more likely
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Papers by Hussaini SULEIMAN, Ph.D