The MTN Foundation Projects and the Challenge of Sustainability
The MTN Foundation Projects and the Challenge of Sustainability
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2015-02-03
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Kasa, Matthias Gabriel
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This paper examines the benefits of MTN Foundation Educational Projects
in three pioneer universities in Nigeria for the provision of electronic
information resources to support the aims and objectives of teaching,
learning, research and leisure. The paper revealed accrued benefits that
include availability of current and relevant information resources, access
and retrieval, daily services at invariably no cost and obtaining hardcopies at
far less the price obtainable in commercial centres. It concludes that the
challenges of sustainability includes cost of updating the already subscribed
databases, e-journals, e-books, renewal of internet connectivity and general
maintenance of the hard and software. The paper therefore recommends
that sustainability can only be achieved through integrated, viable, inclusive,
participatory and concerted collaborative efforts by the benefiting
universities and libraries.
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MTN,, Foundation,, Projects,, Challenge,, Sustainability,