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"The Chief Executive Officer of the National Library of Nigeria, Lanre Aina said that Norway and Nigeria had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to digitise Nigerian books.

Aina told  the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja recently that the digitisation would be done for the first three years in Norway and thereafter the books and other library materials would be digitised in Nigeria.

“In return, Norway would train our staff and give us some digitisation equipment, so that rather than ship the documents to Norway, it will be done in Nigeria to keep with global trend. “We are looking forward to it and the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, has given us the support,’’ Aina said. He attributed  the delay  in executing the digitisation project in the past to paucity of funds. According to him, the National Library of Norway is multilingual and under the MoU, some Nigerian books will be digitalised  in Norway and kept  in their  library. The professor  explained that  digitisation would help to improve the library usage as well as improve reading culture among Nigerians...."