The 21st Century Library: A Tool for Educational Advancement in a Changing Society
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The paper examined the 21st century library as a tool for educational advancement in a changing society. It described the library as a spring of that irrigates the field of education. It also postulates that the aim of education is to equip and empower citizens with values, competences, skills, and knowledge required to play their role effectively in the society which cannot be achieved with the library. It admits that nothing could be more damaging to an educational institution than to neglect its library as quality education is impossible without a quality library. It admitted that lack of information literacy, internet search skills, poor perception of libraries among others are the reasons for the poor utilisation of library resources. The paper recommends that relevant information literacy and internet search skills be acquired, and user education programmes provided to library users at all levels of education.
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