| dc.description.abstract | Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is a principal enabler
to nearly all functional efforts including quality assurance sustenance in higher
education. Studies have revealed that research has a feeder effect on the quality of
knowledge that fulcrums higher education principles thence it attracts significant
investments. These research efforts are captured and documented in publishable
context for availability to knowledge consumers under a more structured system, the
library. Our study focused on unearthing the phenomenal role of ICT on the three
principal foci; Research, Publications and Library services in relation to Higher
Education. However, despite higher education traditional definitive texture, its
universal agenda is to discover, avail and preserve consumable knowledge, which in
principle rhythms with our study focus, ICT being the facilitation operand. This
paper approached the significant role played by ICT’s functional support to the three
focal areas. We appreciated the collaborative existence of research, publications and
library services towards actualizing Higher Education fundamental goals. This was
achieved through critical review of existing literature. We were able to establish ICT
role in activating the tri-axis connection between research, publications and library
services within higher education. We eventually proposed a functional framework
that appreciated the role of ICT in promoting Higher Education as underpinned with
ICT at its bedrock. | en_US |
