Abstract: The significant downside of reading culture is getting more and more obvious in the Nigeria society. Individuals are more obsessed with getting rich than to improve their own knowhow, they want wealth and not books. Whereas, for a better tomorrow, a clearer and purposeful future, knowledge is the key. It is the path to endless possibilities of enormous human, technological, and capital development. To hand these over to the citizenry, libraries and librarians holds the key, the key that unlocks the door to edifying and meaningful information. 400 well-structured questionnaire entitled the Roles of Libraries and Librarians in Promoting Information Management and Reading Culture in Nigeria was used to gather information from twelve (12) government schools, 350 of those questionnaire was recovered and analyzed. The result showed that librarians are experts at finding and organizing information meaningfully for political and economic turnaround. The impacts of library would have been greater, if not for challenges such as: lack of functional information policy, poor funding, and ICT challenges, among others. However, this study recommends solutions such as: re-introduction of community/mobile library services to serve as a bold step to reach out to all and sundry in Nigeria, direct budgetary provision to all categories of libraries and enough manpower to see to library development, among others.
Keywords: Libraries and Librarians, Reading Culture, Human Technological and Capital Development.
Title: THE ROLES OF LIBRARIES AND LIBRARIANS IN DEVELOPING INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND READING CULTURE IN NIGERIA
Author: Odunewu Kuburat Omolara, Odeyemi Bolaji Victoria
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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