Week 3

• There are different types of libraries
• Academic libraries

  • Provide books, journals and reference materials that cut across the various disciplines or courses of study being offered
  • Provide conducive study area for learners and faculty members
  • Educate new students and other library users on how to use the library
  • Provide lending service to allow library users to borrow and return books
• School libraries

  • Stock information on materials related to the educational and recreational needs of pupils and students
  • Provide various textbooks, story books and audio-visual materials
  • Provide an area for training pupils and students for individual study
  • Provide recreational materials like story books, newspapers and magazines
• Public libraries

  • Stock information materials on all areas of life for the benefit of everybody
  • Engage in information services so that even those that cannot read very well may be able to get the necessary information
  • Provide mobile library services to cater for the information needs of the members of the community in rural areas
  • Provide an environment where any member of the library community can have access to information for life-long learning
• National libraries

  • Act as the legal depository and bibliographic center of a nation
  • Provide access to all the published documents in a country
  • Establish branches of the national library in every state and maintain them
  • Give advice on development of libraries at every level of governance
• Special libraries

  • Provide information materials to help the specific group it is meant to serve
  • Have library collections suitable for research and development
• Private libraries

  • Stock information materials based on the needs of their owners
  • Content focus on just one subject area or various subject areas
• Virtual, digital and electronic libraries

  • Make information available in electronic form
  • Allow accessibility of information at any place, time and by everybody who has the necessary materials and equipment
• Public libraries stock information materials on all areas of life so that everybody can benefit
• Digital library

  Differentiate
• Knowing the functions of the various types of library makes it possible for you to know where you can get the needed information at any point in time during your course of study and throughout your life time