The Vice Chancellor of Khairun University Kano, Professor Abdulrasheed Garba has harped on adequate utilisation of digital library in universities as key factor to educational development in the country.
Professor Garba disclosed this during the opening ceremony of first international conference on library science organised by Khairun University Kano in collaboration with Yusuf Maitama Sule University, held in Kano.
Professor Garba noted that the objective of the conference was to acquaint participants with the importance of utilising digital library in enhancing educational development.
He said since assumption of office, emphasis was made towards ensuring that the library was digitalised for optimum performance.
He charged students, academic and non academic staff to make adequate use of the digital library for effective service delivery.
The university librarian, Malam Nazir Mohammed, who is the convener of the conference, said the target was to bring librarians from across the country to rub minds on how to improve digital libraries in higher institutions of learning .
Declaring the conference opened, Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf, represented by the Commissioner for Higher Education, Dr Yusuf Kofar Mata said the conference was timely.
Presenting a paper titled, “Policy Issue in the Changing Roles of the Digital Age,” Professor Lukman Diso from the Bayero University Kano, said the use of digital library has become a global phenomenon, hence the need for the adoption of the technology in Nigerian higher education.