Browsing by Author "Kamar, Nerisa"

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    Challenges of creating, re-creating and maintaining a national bibliography in digital age: the experience from national libraries in developing countries
    (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2023-08-13) Obichere, Charlie; Benson, Oyemike Victor; Kamar, Nerisa; Ogbonna, Justina E.
    A paper given at the "Universal Bibliographic Control at the crossroads: the challenges of unifying IFLA bibliographic standards" Satellite Meeting, organised by the IFLA Bibliography, Subject Analysis and Access, and Cataloguing Sections. The paper focuses on challenges of creating, re-creating and maintaining a national bibliography in digital age: the experience from national libraries in Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria. The status and peculiarity of bibliographic control in the selected developing countries in Africa was well articulated. Strategies adopted for creation of national bibliography in the selected national libraries were examined with highlights on the need to re-create and maintain the bibliographic data in the new digital environment. Factors limiting effective creation and maintenance of national bibliography in the digital age such as technological, institutional, scientific and political factors were identified. The nature, type 2 and functionality of digital infrastructure available in the national library of selected countries were explored. Recommendations were made in line with discovery made. The paper conclude by highlighting on the imperativeness of library and information professionals embracing innovations and creativity by deploying disruptive technologies in creating, re-creating and maintaining national bibliography in developing countries.
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    The importance of meaningful access to information - presentations from the IFLA side-event at the 2023 WSIS Forum
    (2023-03-25) Frey, Jeannette; Kamar, Nerisa; Garrido, Maria
    These are the three presentations from the IFLA side-event at the World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2023, focused on the importance of meaningful access to information. This looked to highlight how far the internet has delivered on progress in different areas where access to information has the potential to have a major positive impact on development, and what more needs to be done to realise this. Presentations come from Maria Garrido (Technology and Social Change Group, University of Washington), Jeannette Frey (Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne) and Nerisa Kamar (Information Africa Organisation)