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An average email user today will tell you they prefer a Gmail to a Yahoo mail, and the reason is not far fetched. 80% of Entrepreneurs prefer Gmail to Yahoo mail . Signing up for a Gmail Account gives you access to a wide variety of Google products and services that can be of help, regardless of the kind of business you do. But as an institution or a company, have you considered the implication of not having a professional email address? Do you know there are implications for letting your staff use their personal email for official communications? A personal Gmail or Yahoomail address is different from a professional email address. Every business that takes branding or its professional identity serious ensures that official email service forms an integral part of their institution or organization’s identity. Whether it’s an academic institution or corporate organization or SMEs, the importance of maintaining a professional and branded email system cannot be overemphasized. Many organis...

  WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT LIBRARY DATABASES By: Sylvester Israel Ebhonu, CLN didigitallibrarian@gmail.com ; ebhonu-lib@adun.edu.ng Admiralty University of Nigeria Library Coordinator INTRODUCTION “… I knew I needed help, because when I go to the internet to browse or look for answers to my assignments, I see a lot of things there and I find it difficult to fish out what I need from what I don’t need. I got frustrated one day in the library until a Librarian came to my aid…” The quote above is an experience of one of our University Library users. There is nothing as frustrating for a student or researcher than the experience of searching the internet for information and getting either nothing or just junks from blogs as results. Some of these frustrating challenges are obvious: Poor information literacy skills Not knowing the best source of information (internet, search engine, database, textbooks, directories, encyclopedia, etc.) that meets a particular researc...