Sustaining Lifelong Education through Public Library Services in the Electronic Age

The research work was on sustaining lifelong education through public library service in the electronic age. Public library services are free public services to any person in the society. It provides access to knowledge, information and works of the imagination through a range of resources and services and is equally available to all members of the community regardless of race, age, nationality, ages, gender, religion language, disability, economic and employment status and educational attainment. Therefore, lifelong education could be sustained through library services in the 21st century, because the public library is open to all categories of users in a community for their information needs that relates to life and workplaces. The article discussed services offered in public library at this age of technology era and Some of services provide by public library to sustain lifelong education in society include: mail service, SDI, bookmobile, outreach programmes, referral and information services etc another area that was in the article overview of lifelong education, goals of lifelong education and impact of ICTs on public library and lifelong learning were also reviewed in this paper. The researchers made some recommendations to librarians in public library. Keywords: Lifelong, education, public library, library services, and  ICTs

Comparative Study of Social Media (Networking) Usage by Undergraduates in Two Selected Tertiary Institutions of Nigeria

The article work was on comparative study of social media (networking) usage by undergraduates in two selected tertiary institutions of Nigeria. Social media have affected communication between people in educational community positively since the pass two decades. Now, life is made easy by this media for development in the education community, social life, and political areas. Descriptive survey design was used. The instruments   for collection of data were questionnaire and interview methods. The questionnaire was distributed to students that are inside the cybercafé and library at the Madonna University, Okija campus and also College of Education Library Agbor. Twenty-five(25) each were distributed randomly to undergraduates with help of one workers in each  schools.  Capture sample technique was adopted by the researchers when distributing the instrument. Findings showed that undergraduates in Madonna University, Okija and College of Education use social media for assignment and research work sometimes. Another findings indicated that Facebook 40(31.25%) WhatsApp 20(41.66%) and UC browser 8(16.66%) are the major social media(networking) often used by them. The researchers found out also that the negative effects of social media include: insomnia, loss of appetite in eating, laziness, addiction to social media, times spend; prone to open dating sites, it encourages online scam. The researchers proffer some solutions in this study