Expanding the Frontiers of School Librarianship Through Training of Personnel For Contemporary Challenges

Abstract

The paper discusses the importance of school library media centres in education. It discusses the concept of school library media centres, concept of school Librarianship and goes further to discuss how personnel of school Libraries can be trained to run school library media centres, challenges faced and the way forward in overcoming these challenges. It concludes- by stating the importance of training personnel to run- school library media centres in Nigerian schools, and that school libraries should avail themselves of the new media so that a favorable reading culture can be developed in our schools.

Keywords: Training, School library personnel, School library media centres