Nigeria seems to be behind in a lot of areas – North American, European, Australasian and even S. E. Asian librarians will say “been there, done that long ago” – but that does not negate the fact that articles about the experience of placing computers in libraries, automation of processes, use of CD-ROMs, introduction of the Internet and so on are just as valid from people doing it now, today for the first time, as they were from when many of us did it 20 or 30 years ago.