The Role of Library Education in National Development
Keywords:
National Development, information, Library educationAbstract
Library education is as important to the whole education process as the library
itself. Libraries and Librarians play very significant roles in knowledge assessment
which is relevant to both education and nation building. This review was to
examine the importance of library education, emphasizing the role of the librarian
in managing the library as an information storehouse, thereby providing access
to knowledge for development. It is revealed that the Library is a repository for
the world's knowledge and that these materials are made available for human
development and best managed by professionally trained librarians. Librarians
play significant role in human capital development and it is the professional
training that makes the individual librarians. The use of ICT infrastructure
provides the library with limitless access to information which provides vast
range of knowledge to support education and national development. This study
therefore recommends among others that the library school curriculum should
be reviewed to include training in the use of ICT and government at all levels
should partner with librarians in their quest to revive reading culture in Nigeria.
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