Public Relation Tools and Extension Services of Public Library in Nigeria
Author(s): Adaeze Nwona Nzewi Ph.D. (CLN), Okechukwu Ngozi Njideka & Lucky Oghenetega Urhiewhu
Abstract – Public libraries exist in many countries across the world and are often considered an essential of having an educated and literate population. Public libraries are distinct from research libraries, school libraries, and special libraries in that their mandate is to serve the general public's information needs rather than the needs of a particular group or sectors of the society, school, institution, or research population. The general popular is expected to make effective and efficient use of public libraries to satisfy their informational and research needs. Unfortunately, many public library in different states in Nigeria had failed over the years to rendered effective services to public. A review of the available literature showed that public library services are not fully exploited by their communities because they are mostly not aware of the services offered. This is worrisome in the 21st century, this made the researchers to exposing tools to reach people because of one challenges or the others. The paper on public relation tools and extension services of public library in Nigeria focus on the following purposes: public relation tools used for extension services in Nigeria; public library extension services available in Nigeria and the challenges confronting public library extension services.
Keywords - Public Relation, Tools, Extension Services and Public Library.
DOI URL: https://doi.org/10.26761/ijrls.7.4.2021.1451
Cite This Article As: Nzewi, A.N. Njideka, O.N. & Urhiewhu, L.O.. (2021). Public Relation Tools and Extension Services of Public Library in Nigeria. International Journal of Research in Library Science (IJRLS), 7(4) 67-75. www.ijrls.in
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Paper ID: IJRLS-1451 Page: 67-75 Publication Date: 25 October 2021