Nigeria women in Library and Information Profession for National Development

Abstract

This paper examined women in library and information services as a panacea for national development. The study adopted contextual analysis which involved the review of publications on the subject matter from library collections and the Internet. The study seeks to answer the following questions: How has women in library affect national development? How has the women in library information services stimulates national development. The study revealed that, library ensures social inclusion and cohesion by providing access to information and knowledge to all the citizens, library is the only institution capable to shoulder information related responsibility across all strata of the society, by providing and ensuring quality information and services, digital and traditional content, knowledge and information networks and ICT facilities to facilitate life-long learning and communication. Women in Libraries and information services are vibrant social agency that connects people with global information resources and the ideas and creative works they seek. Women in Libraries and information services make available the richness of human expression and cultural diversity in all media. The study recommended the following: To support women inclusion in national development policy, nations must give priority attention to the women contributions to information service provision in their country. This will enable the citizens to make informed and responsible decisions resulting first and foremost to personal development which will culminate into collective or national development. Women in Library information services being critical to national development need to be encouraged at all levels of national, state and local library system.