STRENGTHENING AND REFOCUSING PUBLIC LIBRARIES TO COPE WITH THE INFORMATION NEEDS IN A MODERN INFORMATION SETTING BY

Abstract

In a democracy that is information driven, people seek information from the library. The Library must be equipped to provide this information promptly. This paper traces the situation where the Librarian serves as the information scientist positioned to retrieve, package and disseminate information through modern Technology.

The paper prescribes the necessary entry behaviour for Librarians, in service training, mastery of ICT equipments and satisfactory input and output equation. It ensures full exploitation of the bibliographic data base in various Websites for the clientele.