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Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Dr. Isa Pantami has said the University of Jos (UNIJOS) requires a virtual library.
TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Dr. Pantami, who is also the Chief Information Technology Officer of Nigeria, stated this during a working visit by management of UNIJOS to the Agency’s corporate head office in Abuja.
He said the virtual library will enhance research and learning in the institution, and stressed physical books may not be enough due to the number of students admitted by the institution year-in-year-out.
“The population of students and lecturers at the University of Jos, makes it necessary for the institution to require a virtual library in order to enhance research and learning, as physical books may be insufficient,” Pantami stated.
Led by the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Seddi Sebastian Maimako, the management of UNIJOS had sought NITDA’s intervention in enhancing research and learning in the university.
The university’s management solicited for the deployment of the virtual library in the school.