The issue of knowledge preservation has come of age that it will be seminal to
recount the quest of Altbach (1978), who noted rightly that knowledge dissemination is
increasingly important in the third world context taking into cognizance, the rise of an
“independent intellectual life and some self-sufficiency in science”. This, he affirmed, calls
for the establishment of viable structures and medium for the dissemination of knowledge.
Meanwhile, Crow (2002, p.1) opines that every academic and research institution has a
natural responsibility, as generators of primary research, to preserve and leverage their
constituents by means of sharing their scholarly activities. Earlier, the trend of
preservation and dissemination of scholarly knowledge were solely trusted in the confines
of the institutional libraries and scholarly publishing (journals) respectively. Institutional
libraries, particularly, have always served as access points for information starting from
the era of closed stacks, through shelf reading and card catalogues, punch cards, and to the
OPACS system (Christian, 2008). However, in recent times, the trend has been modified as
a result of the birth of a technology-driven society against a previous analogue nation. This
is what Benkler (2006) narrates as an overthrow of “industrial information economy” by a
“networked information economy”. This emerging society is characterized by its ambitious
but feasible quest for knowledge. Information is needed fast everywhere and Information