IMPACT OF POOR FUNDING OF NIGERIA LIBRARY ON THE LITERACY LEVEL OF NIGERIANS

Thesis Abstract

The public library is a social institution which is tied to the political and social realities of the communities, where it is situated. Library helps an organizations to achieve this stated goals and its achievement is dependent I the adequate fund available to the library involved. Looking at one goal set out by public library to achieve and with the fact that less is achieved due to poor materials and infrastructural facilities in our present day societies, its discovered that inadequate funding is responsible. This project titles the effects of poor funding public libraries in Nigeria of Imo state library board was aimed at discovering the main sources of funding problems of public libraries and the reason why publications are often stared of fund. The issue pf funding in public libraries in Nigeria is as old as libraries themselves against this background, the state of funding as it affects ABLB and ISLB were reviewed with the aim of identifying the problem and suggesting ways of solving or improving of the libraries lots.