A collection of information materials stored and being managed by relevant information workers such as librarians in a place designated for reading, study or research by information users
Modern universities sprang up in Europe in the 13th century and served as sources of information for lecturers and students, helping to generate and preserve information
In the late 1920s the Lagos Book Club was formed, before it was upgraded to the Lagos Library after Sir Allan Burns got a grant of 1650 pounds from the Carnegie Corporation
With the establishment of the University College, Ibadan, which later became the University of Ibadan in 1948 the first university library in Nigeria was established
The National Library was established in 1964 with the National Library Act of 1964, with its scopewidened in 1970 to act as a national depository for works published in Nigeria and publish a national bibliography