Exploring the economic strategies applied for sustainable electronic information resource provision in selected university library in Nigeria (Published)
The emergence of electronic information resources in libraries have been one of the most important achievements of the higher education sector in Nigeria since the 21st century which can solve the issue of information services, and addressing the challenges of EIRs are one the concerns and problems of librarians. The purpose of this study was to explore the librarians economic initiative impact in sustaining EIRs in their respective libraries. The research design was mixed method (quantitative and qualitative). Potential participants are all academic librarians from University of Abuja, University of Jos, University of Illorin and Federal University of Technology Minna and their management team. The data collection methods consisted of questionnaire and semi structured interview. The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) was used to report the quantitative findings. While the qualitative interview after coding the interview data using thematic analysis method, inclusive theme were extracted. Result of the study confirmed that though the libraries have applied various strategies in provision of EIRs services but little has been done to advance the sustainability of EIRs services in the surveyed libraries.