Advocacy for School Library Development: Lessons learnt from the Matenda School Library Project in Zimbabwe.2015: IASL Conference Proceedings (Maastricht, Netherlands): The School Library Rocks: Living it, Learning it, Loving it.
The paper focuses on describing the importance and value for development of Rural School Libraries in Africa in order to overcome the increasing gap between the information rich and the information poor that currently threatens educational achievement in remote and inaccessible rural schools. It fur...
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| author | Hosea Tokwe |
| author2 | Chief Library Assistant in the Special Collections Department, Midlands State University Library, and Gweru, Zimbabwe. |
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| description | The paper focuses on describing the importance and value for development of Rural School Libraries in Africa in order to overcome the increasing gap between the information rich and the information poor that currently threatens educational achievement in remote and inaccessible rural schools. It further discusses that main challenges faced when establishing and developing a rural school library to ensure that the socially excluded rural children have access to reading material. The question is - What are the materials and human resources needed to overcome these challenges. In conclusion, the paper offers recommendations that urge the government to establish School Library Service and to enact legislation to address the needs of rural schools in terms of infrastructure, equipment, material resources, appropriate manpower and the introduction of ICTs in rural schools to foster vital knowledge necessary to address local needs. |
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| spelling | ir-11408-55692023-05-02T11:18:38Z Advocacy for School Library Development: Lessons learnt from the Matenda School Library Project in Zimbabwe.2015: IASL Conference Proceedings (Maastricht, Netherlands): The School Library Rocks: Living it, Learning it, Loving it. Hosea Tokwe Chief Library Assistant in the Special Collections Department, Midlands State University Library, and Gweru, Zimbabwe. Advocacy Matenda School Reading Material School Libraries Zimbabwe The paper focuses on describing the importance and value for development of Rural School Libraries in Africa in order to overcome the increasing gap between the information rich and the information poor that currently threatens educational achievement in remote and inaccessible rural schools. It further discusses that main challenges faced when establishing and developing a rural school library to ensure that the socially excluded rural children have access to reading material. The question is - What are the materials and human resources needed to overcome these challenges. In conclusion, the paper offers recommendations that urge the government to establish School Library Service and to enact legislation to address the needs of rural schools in terms of infrastructure, equipment, material resources, appropriate manpower and the introduction of ICTs in rural schools to foster vital knowledge necessary to address local needs. 409 420 2023-05-02T11:18:37Z 2023-05-02T11:18:37Z 2021-02-22 conference proceedings https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5569 https://doi.org/10.29173/iasl7525 en 2015: IASL Conference Proceedings (Maastricht, Netherlands): The School Library Rocks: Living it, Learning it, Loving it 2562-8372 open |
| spellingShingle | Advocacy Matenda School Reading Material School Libraries Zimbabwe Hosea Tokwe Advocacy for School Library Development: Lessons learnt from the Matenda School Library Project in Zimbabwe.2015: IASL Conference Proceedings (Maastricht, Netherlands): The School Library Rocks: Living it, Learning it, Loving it. |
| title | Advocacy for School Library Development: Lessons learnt from the Matenda School Library Project in Zimbabwe.2015: IASL Conference Proceedings (Maastricht, Netherlands): The School Library Rocks: Living it, Learning it, Loving it. |
| title_full | Advocacy for School Library Development: Lessons learnt from the Matenda School Library Project in Zimbabwe.2015: IASL Conference Proceedings (Maastricht, Netherlands): The School Library Rocks: Living it, Learning it, Loving it. |
| title_fullStr | Advocacy for School Library Development: Lessons learnt from the Matenda School Library Project in Zimbabwe.2015: IASL Conference Proceedings (Maastricht, Netherlands): The School Library Rocks: Living it, Learning it, Loving it. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Advocacy for School Library Development: Lessons learnt from the Matenda School Library Project in Zimbabwe.2015: IASL Conference Proceedings (Maastricht, Netherlands): The School Library Rocks: Living it, Learning it, Loving it. |
| title_short | Advocacy for School Library Development: Lessons learnt from the Matenda School Library Project in Zimbabwe.2015: IASL Conference Proceedings (Maastricht, Netherlands): The School Library Rocks: Living it, Learning it, Loving it. |
| title_sort | advocacy for school library development: lessons learnt from the matenda school library project in zimbabwe.2015: iasl conference proceedings (maastricht, netherlands): the school library rocks: living it, learning it, loving it. |
| topic | Advocacy Matenda School Reading Material School Libraries Zimbabwe |
| url | https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5569 https://doi.org/10.29173/iasl7525 |
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