LRCN Capacity Building for Teacher-Librarians in South-West Zone

In response to the Honourable Minister of Education one year strategy plan on quality assurance, the Librarians’ Registration Council of Nigeria (LRCN) in collaboration with the National Library of Nigeria (NLN) held the second in series of capacity building for teacher-librarians in the South West geo-political zone from 22 to 24 March, 2011 at the Oyo State Library Board, Dugbe, Ibadan, Oyo State. The workshop theme was “Functional Approach to Library Development and Management for Effective Learning in Nigerian Schools”

The aim of the workshop was to equip teacher-librarians with the essential knowledge, ideas and information literacy/ICTs skills for managing a standard school library in the information age.

In attendance were participants from states within the geo-political zone, which included teacherlibrarians from public and private schools as well as SUBEB coordinators.

A total of ten papers were presented which focus on:

• Overview of modern library management
• Library instruction as a tool for effective utilization of information resources
• Readership promotion campaign
• ICTs: library management software applications and Internet
• Organization of knowledge
• The workshop had practical and interactive sessions