Abstract

Author(s): Peter Yohanna Mshelia, Abdulganiyu Oluwadamilare Harazeem, Rakiya Aliyu Bello

This study investigated the development of bookless library. Attention was committed to the following areas: opportunity, usability and challenges facing academic libraries in North-east Nigeria towards actualizing this idea. The paper highlighted funding, infrastructure and technology as challenges facing the application of digital libraries in North-east Universities and concludes that, though they are faced with numerous challenges, however, the university libraries could gradually overcome such challenges in the course of time especially through library collaboration