Library as an Agent of Change

Abstract

This study investigated library as an agent of change. The study concluded that the library has acted as a change agent in institutions of higher learning by fostering the creation of new academic communities on campus (virtual community), enhancing life-long learning, improving communication linkages and consultations between policymakers, policy analysts, and policy beneficiaries as well as supporting, managing and improving the institution’s intellectual capital. After the transition of the information society, our world is in a fast and massive transformation in social, cultural, political and economical terms. This transformation process affects almost all organizational structures. One of the structures that is affected of this process is the library with its culturally and socially organizational characteristics as they collect, preserve and serve the information; spot the information as the focus and eventually aim to meet the information needs of the society. Based on the findings and the conclusion drawn from this study, the following recommendations were made; more funds and resources should be allocated to the library in order to improve the priceless and invaluable services rendered by the library, adequate staff development programme should be provided for library staff so as to the emerging roles and services of the library and the government should properly and adequately fund the libraries to enable them procure sufficient current books and other resource and information materials.