Title: Library Education Approach to Sustainable National Security, Economy and Corruption in Post Covid-19 Era
Author(s): Agbeniga Kazeem Abiola, Olaniyi Esther Temitope & Busari Ismail Taiwo
Publication Year: 2023; Volume 18, Issue 3, pages 9-18

This paper aims at examining the Library education approach to sustainable national security, economy and corruption in post covid-19 era. Since no meaningful learning, education and development can take place in a situation of insecurity and brazen destruction of lives and property, the onus lies on the library for responsible librarianship through dissemination of relevant information that can contribute to peace and national security in Nigeria by helping the citizens to understand their role in national security. Libraries and librarians should be seen as important tools in national security. National security is possible through the utilization and collaboration of information, human, and material resources. Libraries play crucial roles in inculcating positive values, attitudes, and behaviours that promote harmonious relationships. Libraries help ensure that people have access to information that will help them make informed judgments and decisions. Corruption, some people believe is becoming a culture. This paper also admits that it is a culture in Nigeria and in other parts of the world as well. Corruption is a global devil that has devoured human intelligibility in its social context. As an anti-social behavior and a plague that has eaten so deep into the entire fabric of the Nigerian society, it confers undue benefits on few people contrary to legal and moral norms of the society. Based on these, it was recommended that security agencies should be as a matter of deliberate government policy, work closely with the library in the war against insecurity; a library should design a blueprint for security consciousness; and rural libraries/mobile libraries should be more functional to distribute literacy materials to help rural dwellers for better information-sensitivity in this information driven society.