Adult Education and Lifelong Learning: The Indispensability of Libraries
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2013-09
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College of Business and Social Sciences, Crawford University
Abstract
The paper considers the widespread recognition that learning is
not merely confined to the different stages that are associated with the
early periods of life but rather spans through life. It emphasizes the
importance of the library to adult education, noting that the quality and
credibility of adult education as well as lifelong learning opportunities in a
country is determined by the robustness of library services available in
that country. The paper further highlights the point that public libraries in
Nigeria are severely flawed as agencies of education and social
development as they virtually non- existed in the rural and urban marginal
areas. Even in the few urban centres where they exist, their services are
undermined by poor funding and obsolete as well as inadequate stocks.
The paper thus notes that this has great repercussion for adult learning in
the country since a quality library service is pivotal to any meaningful
adult education and lifelong learning programs. It concludes that in order
to be effective and act as a catalyst to quality education, especially for
adult learners, the public library must evolve to mirror vitality of good
library service and sustain the interest of its users.
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Adult Learning, Adult Education, Libraries, Information Literacy, Knowledge, Information