A Student of Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO), identified as, Okpara Francis Chinedu, has called attention of the school management over the poor ‘online’ state of the library.

According to him, “this June makes it exactly 6yrs FUTO library has been using a poorly designed WordPress blog with a dot WordPress dot com free domain name.

“The library started using this site since June 18th, 2014 and haven’t found any need to move a step ahead up until today.

“If you’ve been to the futo library, you will agree with me that they’re doing great stuffs there but their image online through this website will make you think the library is another trash Nigerian Library.

“I’m not trying to praise or speak ill of the library, I’m just beckoning on the department to represent properly the good works they do offline, online, at least for the school of technology that we are.

“There are a thousand and one guys in FUTO who can improve this site or blog per say to something more representative, myself inclusive. You can’t have drums and still drum on your chest.

“This site should have been at your subdomain library[dot]futo[dot]edu[dot]ng (Which currently leads to an unsecured page dead-end when visited from the school website) but since you’ve decided to run it differently, it should be run with at least a custom domain name and never, I repeat, never on free WordPress[dot]com And for the current design;

With just ‘Home’ and ‘About’ on the site menu making navigation to resources very difficult. This is not how the catalogs in our library are arranged and we’re able to find books easily and this is not what the library team taught us in our first year in the university.

With the poor content setting on homepage. All contents shouldn’t appear in full on the homepage, they should just have their excerpts with a ‘Read More’ button leading to the full content.

The WordPress logo shouldn’t appear in your favicon. Like that is too unprofessional to say the least.

The footer. Infact there’s no footer on the site. Just a credit area to WordPress Which you can certainly do nothing about since you are on a free plan on the platform.
I hope this gets to the library department of our great citadel. One of the leading schools of engineering and technology in Nigeria.

I’m Francis.”



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Fssj Futo
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Dr. Mrs Chinwe V. Anunobi.
Okpara Francis Chinedu is a Tech Enthusiast, Blogger, Author and Website Designer.

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