Title: Provision of Quality Library Services to Primary and Secondary Schools pupils for Sustainable Educational Development
Author(s): Mohammed Abubakar Dukku, A. A. Maidebino
Publication Year: 2020; Volume 15, Issue 1, pages 37-44

The school children at the primary and secondary school levels required library and information services as an essential tool for effective education development. Libraries attached to both primary and secondary schools provide early drives to scholar learners. In this situation the functions of school libraries are made clear. The paper therefore discussed about the provision of quality library services in primary and secondary school for sustainable educational development of children. The paper overviewed the functions of school libraries from the scholarly perspectives. The nature of school libraries were also reviewed. The paper also identified and discussed school library services provision in line with the minimum standards requirements for school libraries in Nigeria. Various components that constitute a library were also highlighted and recommendations were made among which were: The minimum standards as suggested by the Federal Ministry of Education and Youth Development and that of UBECSUBEB should be accepted and enforced in both primary and secondary schools libraries. The paper conclude that provision of everlasting buildings furnitureequipment collections staffing and funding should be adequately provided in primary and secondary school libraries