LIBRARY SERVICES IN A LINGUISTICALLY DIVERSE COMMUNITY
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 THE STUDY’S BACKGROUND
A community library provides a unique service that should be available to everyone. A library is an organization that acquires, organizes, processes, and disseminates information materials in all disciplines to those who require them at little or no cost. Since its inception, the public library has been regarded as a free library set up to provide service to everyone. It serves the community, which is why it is known as Peoples University (Adimora, 1999).
The public library has the most diverse clientele of any type of library. The services are available to everyone, including literate, illiterate, students, teachers, farmers, industrialists, doctors, bankers, civil servants, businessmen, poor, wealthy, able, and disabled individuals, among others.
The public library must strive to support the general interests of the community it serves in order to improve the quality of life and increase man’s overall happiness and awareness of himself, others, and his environment. The UNESCO public library manifesto, published in 1949 and revised in 1972 and 1994, states that “the public library is the local center of information, making all types of knowledge and information readily available to its users.”
The public library’s services are provided on the basis of equal access to all, regardless of age, gender, race, religion, nationality, language, or social status. Specific services and materials must be provided for users who, for whatever reason, are unable to use the regular services and materials, such as linguistic minorities, people with disabilities, or people in hospitals or prison.
The following are the key missions that should be at the heart of public 13 library services, according to the same manifesto: – developing and strengthening reading habits in children from an early age, supporting both individual and self-directed education as well as formal education at all levels, providing opportunities for personal creative development, stimulating the imagination and creativity of children and young people, creating awareness of cultural heritage, appreciating artistic/scientific achievements and innovations, f
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