Abstract: The paper highlights the felt need of the tertiary institutions in the states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, north-eastern Nigeria where a state of emergency was declared due to the prevalence of terrorist attacks on institutions, where lives and properties were lost. Eliciting information from these tertiary institutions relied on structured (close-ended questionnaire) so to harvest the varied opinions that was anticipated to contribute to addressing the challenges of loss. Well sort solutions, way forward, prospects and benefits of environmental scanning formed part of the information asked, and what to do to save the institutions from monumental loss leveraging on different perspectives. Recommendations offered were based on SWOT analysis. The intent was to encourage the academic libraries to take note of the internal and external environments, because from the two platforms comes help of identifying the strength, weakness, opportunity and threats that a well categorized scan avails as well as suggesting appropriate and implementable measures.
Keywords: terrorist attacks, emergency, tertiary institutions, implementable measures.
Title: THE STRENGTH, WEAKNESS, OPPORTUNITY AND THREAT OF INFORMATION RESOURCES IN THE FACE OF TERRORIST ATTACKS IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES IN THE NORTH – EASTERN NIGERIA
Author: Danji-Fari Yahaya
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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