This study therefore examined why textbooks are scarce in our educational. Book scarcity is a current problem plaguing both the educational programmes and professional practices in nigeria. Download citation book scarcity in nigerian university libraries. According to rice 20, ebook licensing has a variety of models which can be categorized to. Why having too little means so much is a 20 book by a behavioural economist sendhil mullainathan, and a psychologist eldar shafir. Why having too little means so much kindle edition by mullainathan, sendhil, shafir, eldar. This situation requires people to make decisions about. The book investigates what scarcity of money, food and time does to people, organizations and systems. Of most use was the discussion of slack in the system. However, the prevalent social conditions are discouraging. Nigeria does not lack literary talent, but still, books written by native authors. Environmental scarcity renewable resources and con. Even at full capacity, the supply from those refineries will still be far from sufficient to take care of at least 50 per cent of the 4560 million litres the nnpc says we consume daily. Scarcity refers to the basic economic problem, the gap between limited that is, scarce resources and theoretically limitless wants.
A top official of the petroleum products pricing regulatory agency has said that the fuel scarcity being experienced in various states across nigeria would continue till the first quarter of 20. Book pirates constitute a serious menace to the author. A menace to effective research, teaching and learning book scarcity is an unhealthy. Finally, on the scarcity of homegrown literature, zainab, 26, a gp stated. But the book s unified theory of the scarcity mentality is novel in its scope and. Pupil enrolment in sample public primary schools in rivers state for 20 session. Ebook management, nigeria, university libraries, collection development, drm. Additional information about the 20 ndhs may be obtained from the headquarters of the national population commission npc, plot 2031, olusegun obasanjo way, zone 7 wuse, pmb 0281, abuja, nigeria telephone. Some of the causes of book piracy are poverty, book scarcity, ignorance of the.
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