Efforts/Activities at Schools' Level by Principals, Headmasters, PTA to Support Provision of Library Services in chool: The Case of Abuja Federal Capital Territory

Abstract

The library is an integral part of any education system and it is the responsibility of all to provide it at all levels of our educational endeavour and of course maintaining and sustaining it at the required standard. The Nigerian School Library Association over the years has championed the course of the school library in Nigeria, and its effort has proved very fruitful. At 25 years of its existence, the provision of school library service is still to a very large extent the responsibility of the Government. This paper looks at the efforts which the government has made in the past and reiterates that other approaches must be brought in to support the government in its quest to develop school libraries in Nigeria. The paper therefore looks at what the PTA, the Headmasters, Principals Pupils, Librarians and other stakeholders in education can do to develop the school library in the years ahead