Scholars: Scholars are people with a profound knowledge of a subject, an area, or a discipline.
Shelf: A shelf is a rectangular piece of wooden or other hard substance attached to a wall or incorporated into furniture that serves as a platform for storing or displaying library materials. A digital library and its holdings are supported through Internet.ĭocuments: A document is a printed, illustrated, projected, or archived expression of ideas, which is often the embodiment of both non-fictional and fictitious material.Įlectronic Database: An electronic database is a computer-based accumulation or directory of materials, such as research papers, review articles, theses, books, and chapters in books, among others, that are structured logically with searchable features or sections. Information: Information are verified or process data about events, observations, things, procedures, people, processes, or phenomena that can lend itself to meaningful conclusions.ĭigital Library: This is an online database containing digital items such as text, still images, audio and video clips and other media formats. Scientists: Scientists are people that meticulously collect and analyse data and evidence for the generation and testing of hypotheses to gain and share insight and knowledge. For a platform to be considered a library, it must possess many features (such as proper management of materials, easy accessibility, location of indexed materials, etc.), just like traditional libraries. This means that anywhere materials are saved without appropriate arrangement and classification, such media cannot be referred to as a library. For instance, books can be classified based on, but not limited to, the field, author(s), publisher(s) and year of publication. The arrangement of materials (including books, journal articles, magazines, etc.) uses several classification indicators. Cataloguing aims to make sure that materials are timely and quickly sourced. Cataloguing is a demanding task performed by librarians to ensure that materials are not mixed up. A digital library should contain appropriately arranged materials (catalogue) to optimise easy access to information. Thus, these media do not constitute a digital library. However, there is poor maximisation of cataloguing skills/tools when accessing files from such storage devices. Over two decades ago, accessing digital information was only possible by saving the materials/books on a computer disk or removable disks such as CD-ROM, floppy disks, etc. Without internet access, there will be difficulty gathering scholarly materials, especially at the convenience of one's location. This is because many people lack Internet access, especially in Africa and developing nations (Abdulqadir & Asongu, 2022 Mojapelo, 2020 Owan et al., 2021, 2022 Oyedemi, 2015 Sambuli, 2016). Although the Internet made the storing and retrieval of information accessible, not many people have benefited from the wealth of the Internet. The Internet is a platform that allows individuals to communicate/disseminate research ideas and findings electronically without having to meet themselves or travel across a long distance. Fortunately, this challenge was bridged through the advent of the Internet and electronic/digital databases. Along the line, many scholars faced the challenge of travelling distance locations in search of scholarly literature. In time past, researchers, scholars and scientists relied on the physical/traditional library to source relevant knowledge and information. Thus, Library and Information Science as a discipline is not left out due to the high demand for quick and easy access to books, journal articles and other information sources. As days pass, innovations keep emerging in all fields of man's endeavours.
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