Public Relation Skills of University Librarians in South-East Geo-Political Zone of Nigeria.

This study investigates the Public Relation Skills of University Librarians in South-East geo-political zone of Nigeria. Two research questions guided the study. Questionnaire with 19 items and interviews method were used for the study. Descriptive survey design was used. The population sample constitutes (13) Federal and State Universities with one hundred and seventy-four librarians and library officers in University Libraries South-East geopolitical zone-Nigeria. Sample used are five (5) University Librarians and thirty-seven (37) practising librarians, all totally 42. Data were collected, tabulated and analyzed using simple percentage method. The major findings of the study show that the public relation skills of university librarians are poor and this effects the overall library administration. The major recommendation is that the University should as a management matter of urgencies organize in-service-training on public relation skills for university librarian and library schools to include in their curriculum public relation courses in order to strengthen the leadership quality of future librarians. Keywords: Librarians, Public Relations Skills, Library services, and managemen

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