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Information Literacy and Sustainable Development Goals Implementation: The Role of Libraries and Librarians
- Type
- Research Journal Article
- Author
- Magnus Chukwuduziem Unegbu, Opara Immaculata, Blessing Nkechi Emuchay
- Year
- 2023
- Publisher
- International Journal of Social Science and Education Research Studies
- Abstract
- This paper is an exploratory investigation on Information Literacy and Sustainable Development GoalsImplementation: The Role of Libraries and Librarians. It is imperative to note that libraries andlibrarians can help streamline services that encourage the participation and acceptance of stakeholdersthrough its sharing, collaboration and facilitation platforms and services. The familiarity of users totheir respective libraries avails the library the opportunity to sensitize, recognize and make visibleprospects and challenges recorded with the implementation of SDGs. As it was pointed out that everysector depends on the library, it could be concluded that the library has all that is required to supportthe sustainable development goals to be achieve because of its characteristic dependability andinclusiveness. This paper recommended that management of libraries should not see the libraries asavenue of enriching themselves as there have been situations where fund released by government hasbeen misappropriated and embezzled at the detriment of effective service provision. There should bein a existence a body with integrity whose responsibility should be to monitor and audit every libraryproject and anyone found culpable punished accordingly. Furthermore, librarians and libraries shouldget involve in advocacy programmes such as road-walk, distribution of informative flyers, radio jinglesand social media campaign with a view to intimating the public on the SDGs.
- Keywords
- MIL and SDG