Digitalising the Library Management for Effective Performance in the Nigerian Oil and Gas Sector

Advancement in information and technology in the 21st century has affected the manner and type of information required by library users. To effectively meet the emerging needs of information seekers, libraries need to be digitalised. The aim of this paper is to examine how the digitalising of library management can lead to effective performance in the Nigerian oil and gas sector. This study adopts an analytical research methodology that showed that there is still a huge gap in the delivery of library services in the oil and gas sector due to the lack of full digitalisation of libraries in the sector. Five subtopics were analyzed in order to articulate the aim of the study. The subtopics include; Introduction, Digitalisation of library management and digital libraries, the need for digitalisation of library management in the oil and gas sector, and how the digitisation of library management can lead to effective performance in the oil and gas sector, and challenges to the digitalisation of libraries.  The study concluded that the oil and gas sector is the backbone of the Nigerian economy hence oil and gas professionals need easy and fast access to information for effective performance and safety. As such, libraries need effective service delivery. It also recommended solutions to the challenges of digitalisation of library performance in the oil and gas sector

Supporting dynamic and distributed decision making in acute care environments: Insights from a cognitive ethnography

The way that medical decisions are carried out in hospital environments has undergone radical changes in recent years, in part as a result of the changing landscape of care. To make decisions, physicians are expected to keep abreast of a growing and changing body of medical and patient knowledge, collaborate more with clinical colleagues, and utilize more technologies to inform care than ever before. This dissertation reports on a five month cognitive ethnography in an ICU in Ontario Canada, and utilizes distributed cognition to understand the challenges that physicians face in making decision in modern acute care environments. It also seeks to elucidate the strategies used by ICU physicians to cope with the challenges associated with using information from social, material and technological sources in decision-making. My findings demonstrate how information resources are (1) Objectivist, in that too much attention is paid to supporting the formalized, outcome-centered aspects of medical thinking, without due regard to the processes involved in adapting decisions to their situation; (2) Fragmented, in that, while information resources are often well-designed when considered in isolation, they force physicians to bridge gaps in the logic of access or representation when working between resources; (3) Individualistic, in that information resources are often tailored to support the cognitive needs of individual physicians, leaving the cognitive needs associated with collaboration unsupported, and sometimes undermining them. To compensate for the challenges associated with using objectivist, fragmented and individualistic information resources, physicians employed a number techniques, including relying in paper and other flexible artifacts, interpersonal clinical communications, and engaging in mobility work. This research brings us a step closer to understanding how people, paper, and technologies function together to fulfill the complex and dynamic needs associated with making medical decisions