Title: Library Services in the 21st Century for Sustainable National Development in Nigeria: An Overview
Author(s): Mohammed Bello Ahmed ,Abubakar Umar, Abdullahi Abubakar Dewa
Publication Year: 2020; Volume 15, Issue 2, pages 79-87

This paper discussed library services in the 21st century towards sustainable national development. The transformation of national development socially economically politically educationally and technologically enhances improvement in human dignity and the general well-being of its peoples. The libraries of the 21st century have devised various means of reaching the library users beyond the conventional means of library service delivery. The paper discussed the libraries services irrespective of public special national academic private or virtual. The library services highlighted in this paper are Reference and information service RIS Answering users questions Circulation services Current awareness service CAS Selective dissemination of information SDI Indexing and abstracting service IAS Inter-library cooperation and network Readership promotion RP and User education UE Internet services Web tools services i.e. emails video conferencing Social media platforms and Cloud library service and also the importance of library services towards achieving sustainable national development. The paper concludes that libraries are key and essentials actors in the society and they play important role towards achieving sustainable national development through effective and functional services it rendered. The paper recommends that government should pay attention to libraries by providing more and adequate funds for smooth running of the libraries for sustainable national development in Nigeria.