Nigeria: Nigeria’s Library System – is It Collapsing Or Transforming?

Economic and global technological developments, most prominently, Information Communication Technology (ICT), are having tremendous impacts on Nigeria’s library system, portraying it as collapsing or transforming, depending on the conception and perception of the traditional values and functions of library one holds.
The impact of each of these factors depend on and vary according to the nature and statutory functions of each type of library in the country’s development system. More striking are developments in the libraries of universities and higher institutions and the national library.