Title: Development and Implementation of e-Board Library Portal for Library Services Enhancement in Hussaini Adamu Federal Polytechnic Kazaure
Author(s): Aminu Garba, Ibrahim Wada
Publication Year: 2020; Volume 15, Issue 1, pages 113-126

This article focuses on the development of e-Board library portal for librarys information resources organization and provision as well as services enhancement in Hussaini Adamu Federal Polytechnic Kazaure Jigawa State. The intent of the research is to create platforms through which information contents could be made known and accessible to students and researchers and encourage teaching and learning activities. Experimental research design was employed for the study. The materials used were Windows Server 2012-R2 Core i5 Lenovo ThinkPad 14-inch Laptop MikroTIk wireless access points router Apache server MySQLi database HTML CSS PHP JavaScript jQuery as well as Bootstrap 3 framework. The wireless access points covered library structure and 50 meters away on all angles of the library. Two 2 experts in Computer Science and three 3 professionals in Library and Information Science carried out usability testing of the e-Board. The materials used for the testing were wireless access points Google Chrome and Fireofox browsers laptop computers and mobile smart phones. The usability testing results showed more 70 effectiveness efficiency and satisfaction. The results on tasks 1-5 revealed that the e-board was capable of accepting storing and disseminating digital information resources and allows users to use their computer gadgets to access and use the system. It is recommended that libraries in universities polytechnics colleges of educations in Nigeria should develop an It is recommended that universities polytechnics colleges of educations libraries in Nigeria should develop e-Board and implement it to reduce the challenges associated with access to and use of information resources and services