Information Management and Services at Research Universities in Dubai

Abstract

The study seeks to explore the developments of Research Universities in Dubai using structured questionnaire with an objective to study how information is effectively managed and the extent of information services extended to the users in the libraries of Dubai with respect to their technological infrastructure, status of automation, networking and information services. The results reveal that, the universities are of recent origin with strong ICT infrastructure and most of the libraries are automated. eSRM – a library software is quite popularly used by one fourth of the libraries in Dubai.