Tuesday, April 30, 2013

The 7 Enemies of Commitment


I was going to write a lengthy experiential story in which I captured these 7 situations until I did walk into a friend's office and saw this on her wall.

The 7 Enemies of Commitment
1. A lifestyle of giving up.
2. A wrong belief that life should be easy.
3. A wrong belief that success is a destination.
4. An attitude of negative thinking.
5. An acceptance of other people's fences.
6. An irrational fear of failure.
7. A lack of vision

Source: The choice is yours: Today's Decisions for the rest of your life by John G. Maxwell, 2005 J. Countryman

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Books matter!

There are various statements made by people. But the one that says: "books matter" is the one that to me has a very deep meaning. It embraces self esteem, self actualization, purpose, reward and recognition. It also means that one is empowered to that functionality enabling them to sustain themselves in the contexts they find themselves in.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Over 1,000,000 text-books to Africa!

We are known by supplying text books!
We are known by mobilizing friends/volunteers to collect books for us!
We are known by sending text books to those who need them most!
Help us distribute over 1,000,000 test books to Africa.
The books go to: Libraries, schools and homes.
We ask you to provide us with money that in turn will enable us collect, package and ship the books.
Have a look at our work so far!
The books in storage in our USA stores before sorting, packaging and shipping to Africa


The text books that will help empower the children of Africa. Remember what Sir Richard Steele said: "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." Books are support tools enabling students/readers to continue reading during their own free time. Books enable one maintain discipline.

The Founder, listening to the radio program aired for students in USA in which students are quizzed over various book titles and they get to win prizes ranging from trips to other countries and monetary rewards. Reading books can be fun too! Help the African child fill the gap with other children of the world by providing us money to ship these books please.




Final touches include marking and sealing our packages.


Books For Africa is what we are engaged in!

Monday, April 22, 2013

DIGITAL PUBLIC LIBRARY

 Free to All
 April 18, 2013, 12:01 am
 By Robert Darnton
 Some have detected a revolutionary message behind the choice of today as the date to launch the Digital Public Library of America—a project to make the holdings of libraries, archives, and museums freely available in digital form to all Americans. They’re right.
  
 “On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five,” as Longfellow put it in “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere,” Paul Revere did not merely warn the farmers of Lexington and Concord that the redcoats were coming. His “midnight message” was a call for liberty. To free Americans’ access to knowledge may not be so dramatic, but it is equally important; for Revere and all the founding fathers knew that a republic could not flourish unless its citizens were educated and informed.
  
 Nor is it a coincidence that the launching pad of the Digital Public Library of America is the Boston Public Library, the first great public library in America, which proclaims in letters chiseled over its main entrance, “Free to All.” That is the revolutionary message of the DPLA. It will make our country’s heritage available to everyone and at no charge: “Free to All.”
 The tragic disaster at the Boston Marathon took place just across from the library and made it necessary to cancel today’s launch event. But a virtual launch will occur as planned, so the DPLA will begin to operate online at noon today. By persevering with its mission, the DPLA will pay tribute to the spirit of freedom embodied by the library and to the courage of everyone who coped so bravely with the disaster.
  
 Speaking as one who has spent most of his life studying the revolutions of the 18th century, I believe that the term “revolution” is overused. I have read about a “revolution” in men’s wear and “revolutionary” changes in football coaching. But the Internet has brought a genuine revolution into everyone’s life, one that is every bit as momentous as the transformation wrought by Gutenberg.
  
 Don’t think that this revolution is merely technological. We are participating in something greater than the greatest algorithm. It is the democratization of access to knowledge, but it owes a great deal to technology.
  
 Paul Revere depended on a signal transmitted by two lanterns in the belfry of the Old North Church, in Boston. He carried his message on a horse, and he delivered it by mouth to Sam Adams and John Hancock in Lexington. According to Longfellow, the ride took more than an hour—and “the fate of a nation was riding that night.” Think of it: fateful communication by lantern, horseback, and speech.
  
 Today we have bits and bytes moving at nearly the speed of light. We can send our messages round the world faster than Paul Revere’s horse could blink.
  
 What is that message? “Free to All.” We believe that everyone has a right to search and discover everything accumulated in our libraries, archives, and museums. The entirety of our cultural heritage should be freely available to everyone, not by applying for admission or purchasing a ticket at the door. It is everyone’s right by birth, a birthright that Revere, Hancock, and Adams claimed as free-born Englishmen, who on April 18, 1775, were transforming themselves into revolutionary Americans.
  
 The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet. Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the world. If we fail to do so, we are not living up to our civic duty.
  
 All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers. From the age of the Enlightenment it was open to all; but only a few could exercise their citizenship, for only a minority could read or afford to buy books.
  
 I don’t mean to minimize the obstacles to the spread of knowledge today. Aside from the distressing inadequacy of our schools, we face commercial interests that would like to fence off the knowledge that belongs in the public domain and to charge admission for access to it. The DPLA stands for open access—democratization rather than commercialization.
  
 That may sound suspiciously abstract and high-minded. But revolutions challenge us to articulate goals and formulate principles. The DPLA today is only a beginning, a small start down a long road with plenty of bumps, twists, and turns. It will require savvy and street smarts to travel down that road. But as we set out today, we can pause for a moment to contemplate our far–off goal: Armed by the best possible software and hardware, perched on a state-of-the-art platform, linked together in a distributed electronic system, we will open access to knowledge by making it free to all.
  
 Robert Darnton is a professor and university librarian at Harvard University.
  
 Comments at:
 http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2013/04/18/free-to-all/
  
 Meanwhile in Africa, the Musevenis are delivering sacks of money to the pizanti in 2013, banks be damned! I wonder, could more good be done by that money, if it were instead used in a government program to get rid of jiggers, or buy beds & mattresses in hospitals, or even build primary schools, or pay teachers?
  

 James Ssemakula

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Brochure


                                                    JJAGGWE FOUNDATION
14360 Valerio St. #314 Van Nuys, CA 91405-1464 Tel: 818-201 7048  Website: http://www.jfpl-erc.org/     Email: jfpl-erc2013@gmail.com
                                                                     

                                                                                     BROCHURE

                                                                                                
Who we are:We are a social development organization where opportunities for individuals create possibilities.

What we are: We work with people in Great Lakes Region of Africa through providing scholastic materials.

Mission: “Take the World, Data, combine it with the people in the community and create a value.”

Vision: “Potential and dependability are a bad thing to waste.”

Objectives: Establish a Public Library/Resource Center for educational, scientific, cultural programs and services as a means to address the four Third World’s major obstacles which are: Ignorance, Poverty, Disease and Unemployment.

v  Jjaggwe Foundation Educational Resource Center Project is under:
African Empowerment Communities (Africom) a registered Charity organization, in the State of California.

Networks, Partnerships and Founder


BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT MTN FOUNDATION DIGITAL LIBRARY PROJECT:
This foundation is using their knowledge to help underprivileged people make a better life for themselves, by helping the communities connect. They have a number of initiatives that include:
i) Education.
ii) Health.
iii) Art & Culture.
iv) Entrepreneurship and
v) Social Projects.
 In a nutshell, they try to help communities in their entity by ensuring the change they make is working through:
i) Improved Education.
ii) Better Health Care.
iii)Supporting Entrepreneurship- Businesses in the area.

In the area of Education, one of the project they focus on improving is the information connectivity in rural schools, using technology to improve scholars and teachers with tele-teaching and skills, and making the infrastructure in schools better.











CONCLUSION: Unlock the possibilities, by subscribing to becoming a membership of Jjaggwe Foundation Public Library/ Educational Resource Center. "Knowledge is power"

Eagerly looking forward to working with you, by bringing exceptional Library/Educational Resource Center services to all people within and enhances our roles as the national leader in innovative Library/ Educational Resource Center.

For more details about the Foundation, please visit:
Website: www.jfpl-erc.org  
E-mail Address: jfpl-erc2013@gmail.com
Phones contacts: +1-818-201-7048 (USA).
Contacts in Uganda (East Africa):  256-0752-657973, 0777-384431 & 256-0773-243600.

Ssalongo Dennis L. Nnyondo.

Founder Executive Director.

Jjaggwe Foundation Public Library-Educational Resource Center (JFPL-ERC).


 


 


OPERATIONS


EXPECTED SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED:
 Book reading, borrowing and selling of all kinds of educational materials including: Textbooks, Novels both in English and local languages, Magazines, Videotapes Films, CDs, Movies and Music, Printing, Photocopying, Fax Services and Internet Services.
For membership, borrowing services and Internet surfing will be available for them freely.

RESOURCES REQUIRED BEFORE SETTING UP THE BUSINESS:
For the start, the following items will be included in the budget requirements:
a)     50,000 New and Used Textbooks of different disciplines (Subjects) of learning both for academic, vocational and business entrepreneurship.Already abover 8000 books are already in Uganda in storage.
b)    25 Computers, WI-FI facilities for Internet and teaching 25 CDs for computers.
c)     1000 Computerized Membership Cards.
d)    Building facilities for hire in both in the region starting with Uganda and Southern Sudan and later in different locations in bigger/larger towns.
e)     Book shelves and 25 Computers desks.
f)      Furniture (Tables and Chairs) for seats.
g)      10 Trained experiences personnel and 5 drivers.
h)    5 Pads, 5 Punching machines, 5 Staplers, Staple wires and Stationary.
i)       50,000 Brochures about the business.
j)       4 Printing machine attached with a Photocopier, Scanner and Fax facilities.Already one is already in Uganda and another one in transist to Uganda.
k)    Telephone facilities.
l)       5 Water and Hot Tea facility machines.
m)  Plastic disposable cups.
n)    5 Mobile Library Vans.
o)    Solar Panels to provide electric system to avoid constant power shedding where electricity is available and to locations where electricity is not avaialable at all..
p)    Tracking and adding machines.Already one is in stock, to be shipped to the region.
q)    Surveillance Cameras for security purposes.
r)      Shredding machine.
s)     Trash cans/ dustbins.
t)      Scientific/ Laboratory Equipments for Science experiments.
u)    Artistic materials Craft materials.
v)    Equipments for demonstrating Performing Art disciplines (Musical Instruments).

 SCHEDULED DAYS AND TIME FLAME:
N.B Below is the schedule for the Book Store/Library/Resource Center hours:
WEEK DAYS:
Mondays- Fridays from 10.00 a.m- 8.00 p.m
 WEEKENDS:
Saturdays from 9.00 a.m – 6.00 p.m
PUBLIC DAYS AND SUNDAYS:
All Official Public Holidays will be closed. 

WHAT MAKES US GOING!


WAY FORWARD FOR THE FOUNDATION:        

To identify Authors, philanthropists, individuals, corporations and Foundations in fundraising to support technology, educational and cultural programs that will sustain the Foundation’s system run.
- We know how quality of life improves when everyone has equal access to information, books and technology. Therefore, we are to exist to support those and advocate and innovate and also recognize those who will reflect the 21st Century.
-One of the differences between a good library/resource center and a great library/resource center is philanthropy. There are to be people who believe and are willing to see a Library/Educational Resource Center go to greatness.
-We need to see a person who has the desire and ability to support cultural, scientific and educational institutions- without supporting the library.
-The Library Foundation has a public purpose, established to support the essential library programs of the public Library/Resource Center. ( (Ken Brecher).
-By working with the Foundation Public Library/Educational Resource Center, we are to create an environment where great ideas can come to the table to be discussed.
-We need people to say things about the Jjaggwe Foundation Public Library/Educational Resource Center that today would sound hyperbolic.
-We want people to say there’s no institution that has had a greater impact on helping young people to become school ready than the Jjaggwe Public Library/Educational Resource Center
- We intend to establish a wide range of programs and services that focuses on new technologies, addressing public health disparities, workforce development, and a deeper commitment to adult literacy and school readiness.
-No other institution in our community has had a greater impact on emergent literacy.
-We want people to say that the library has had a substantive difference on addressing unemployment, or that the resource center/library is one of the most valued cultural institutions in our entire region.
-We want people to associate the word impact with the Library/Educational Resource Center.
- This project intends to initiate jobs as a way of reducing massive unemployment in region.

THE BENEFICIARY COMMUNITY MAKE UP


FOUNDATION’S PROGRAMS:
The Jjaggwe Foundation Public Library Educational Resource Center is to be established to raise private sector support to benefit one of the nations’ most valued public resources.
The Foundation is to conduct various educational, cultural and scientific programs that will include the following:
i)                   Mobile Book Vehicle: to provide an Educational Resource Center/ Library Services in areas that cannot access Library facilities.
ii)                Availability of WI-FI for the Resource Center/ Library Foundation technology initiative including Digitization, Adopt-a –Branch, Technological Innovations and Cybernants to enable beneficiaries access Internet services.
iii)              Digital collections-eBooks: e-Book catalog that will contain an exhaustive mix of fiction, non-fiction titles for students of all ages, best sellers, and bestsellers. These digital copies can be downloaded to a range of device, from your home computers, your kindle, iPad, and cell phone for a period of three weeks period once loaded.
iv)              E-Movies: Together with Jjaggwe Library / educational Resource Center Card and a personal computer, Patrons can view unlimited movies that span many genres from Imax documentaries to live concerts, feature films to PBS series. With no license limits, these movies have no waitlists and are always available for checkout for a period of 7 days at a time.
v)                Audio-books: Resource Center/ Library patrons have been checking out “Talking Books” for decades, digital books serve the same purpose, but come in a more convenient packaging for up to three weeks at a time. Patrons can choose from thousands of titles, and load them on to MP3 players. The book will automatically unload from your devices allowing more time to browse new titles and less time worrying about how to return it.
vi)              We Read Together: this is a program which will be meant to equip Pre-school (0-5) years old children with a head start on reading and writing by teaching their parents how to read aloud and build pre-library skills.
vii)           Live Homework Help: Is to provide a free online tutoring service for students and adults learners available throughout the week from 3.00 p.m-10.00 p.m. The service will also be accessible at www.jfpl-rc.org from any computers outside the library by using Jjaggwe Foundation Public Library-Resource Center Card (JFPL-RC).
viii)         Will avail Adult Literacy Centers (ALC) to render assistance to the adult people.
ix)              This is your library/Resource Center: A new series of programs will be established after hours programs presented in late night talk show style, featuring DJs’, live bands, drinks librarians and conversations.
x)                Student Smart free workshops in collaboration with Princeton Review are help to prepare teens for SAT exams and college applications.
xi)              Photocopying, Printing and fax services are also provided.
xii)           Establish a cultural program known as “ALOUD”. This is a program including creating a cultural series to provide a space for the community to come together and engage in civic discourse. Such programs include: series of conversations, readings, performances which brings together today’s’ brightest cultural, scientific and political luminaries to the City of Los Angeles and beyond.
xiii)         Blog Community: Brings to you what’s happening at the Library Foundation. Where a dialogue is opened on literary and library news and periodicals that will offer first hand perspectives on our educational and cultural programs in order to keep community members up to date with the most existing initiatives.


A LIBRARY AND WHAT ITS BENEFITS TO A COMMUNITY ENTAIL


ROLES OF A LIBRARY/EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER:

-Different people benefit many ways that include searching and accessing to different information from books, Internet, magazines, CDs’ etc.
-Students benefit how to improve on note-making and listening skills through remedial assistance.
-In order to enable students improve their academic studies, they will  receive help in areas of study that many schools which do not have such available resources that include remedial and homework programs.
Help also people for job search and business connections and interaction through Internet use.
-A Library/Educational Resource Center is a great stage because it contains all disciplines including interdisciplinary like reading, writing, research, theatre, cyber programs etc.
-Library/Resource Centers create a sense of discovery that opportunity of access, access is about making that information, that intellectual content, the wisdom, that record of human history available to everyone.
-When you visit a Library/Educational Resource Center, you are excited to see the diverse ways people make use of the Library/Educational Resource Center, it’s about viewing an exhibit, or expressing the culture of a community you might not be familiar with or being a safe place for young people, it’s a place where people go to be with others.
-Through use of the Library/Educational Resource Center, people are able to find jobs; people have had the door open to a career or an academic interest because of a single book. It’s a comfortable, safe, stimulates, creative with people who are very different than others, where in a library people are all the same.
-A Library/Educational Resource Center is a transformation institution. One of the challenges to be a Library/Educational Resource Center leader is to help people understand that.
-That people see the opportunities in how the library/resource center can have an impact on their community’s highest biggest issues.
-The Library/Educational Resource Center gives to everyone an opportunity to meet people and participate in a community that may be different from one’s own.
-In a library/resource center you are surrounded by books and computers is exhilarating and it makes feel optimistic that a nation will find a way to solve problems, to hold onto our values that include having someone in everyone’s life- a librarian- who is there to answer any question you might have, to help you get the information you need, to suggest what you might want to read and think about next.
-We are cultural institution of the world (John F. Szabo). The challenge is to make sure we are nimble/ resourceful and able to change- from making use of technology to ensuring that the public educational resource center/ library remains that most democratic institution.
-We should look into ways not only to preserve, protect, and organize content, but we also should look into opportunities where resource centers/ libraries can be places where people contribute and generate content, where people tell their stories to make the historic of Ugandans is available for many years to come.

Therefore, the potential for a better future is ultimately what has compelled Jjaggwe Foundation to support establishing educational franchised libraries/ educational resource centers in different locations in the region. The whole world is at your fingertips, if you walk into the Library/ Educational Resource Center.

BENEFICIARIES AND LOCATION


BENEFICIARIES:
Youth, Students at all levels, Business Entrepreneurs, Politicians, Researchers, Social workers and the General Public at large.

LOCATION:
This will be first piloted as a web-based facility and various channels like our website www.jfpl-erc.org, our E-mail address jfpl-erc2013@gmail.com will be used to encourage registration and membership.

CODE OF CONDUCT


FOUNDATION’S CODE OF CONDUCT:
In a nutshell, the Foundation will be guided by the following core of human values:
      -Personal integrity-Sincerity & Honesty,
      -Excellence Readiness to Serve Others.
      -Teamwork & Hard work.
      -Self Respect & Respect of Customers.
      -Transparency & Accountability.
      -Practical Participation.
      -Time Management.

STATEMENT OF BELIEF


FOUNDATION’S MOTTO:
“Potential and dependability are a bad thing to waste”.

OUR MAJOR GOAL IS:
To establish a point where opportunities for individuals create possibilities.

BROAD OBJECTIVES OF JJAGGWE FOUNDATION PUBLIC LIBRARY/ EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER:
Establish a Public Library/Resource Center for educational, scientific, cultural programs and services as a means to address the four Third World’s major obstacles which are: Ignorance, Poverty, Disease and Unemployment.

MISSION OF JJAGGWE FOUNDATION PUBLIC LIBRARY


MISSION STATEMENT OF JFPL-ERC:
1 To support and provide access to information and ideas that challenge and inspire and enrich the programs of the JFPL-ERC in ways that are not confined/ limited by geographical educational boundaries to where no public library facilities has gone before.   

2 To bridge the digital divide by providing Public Library-Resource Center with new technology.



The internet is used every day and is part of life’s essentials like: applying for a job; money banking transactions; paying bills; or taking college courses; live tutoring help; remedial homework assistance; Adult Literacy Computer classes programs; career resources and; interacting with others at a distant (Social networks). This requires a primary point of access. Our project intends to introduce Wi-Fi to address this issue.

JJAGGWE FOUNDATION PUBLIC LIBRARY PROJECT


ROLE OF A LIBRARY/ EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER:
One major importance of a Library/an Educational Resource Center is that, it plays an important role in promoting the progress of knowledge to people who love to access various information and educational ideas but cannot afford to;
1       Supports education that helps to improve people’s lives.
2       A library is one of the greatest learning resources, that brings awareness of changing nature of libraries and pushing limits of hopefully open doors for other
3       Perform an outreach and trying to design and implement an innovative program of our choice.
4       Libraries experience natural partnership between Public libraries and public educational institutions (Schools).
5       Libraries teach theory based on practical practice by learning practical knowledge.

A PUBLIC LIBRARY


VARIOUS DEFINITONS OF WHAT A PUBLIC LIBRARY/EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER IS:
Description of  a Library/ Educational Resource Center:

-A Library/ an Educational Resource Center is a creation of various shared learning materials or books of libraries where scholars could go to search information and new ideas from various sources of avenues that they didn’t have to own.
-A Library/ an Educational Resource Center is a warehouse for informational materials worth sharing.
-A Library/ an Educational Resource Center is the local nerve center for information.
-A Library/an Educational Resource Center is a place where people do come together to do co-working and co-ordinate and invent projects worth working on together.
-A Library/ an Educational Resource Center is a collection of sources, resources, and services, and the structure in which it is housed; it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual. In more traditional sense, a Library/an Educational Resource Center is a collection of various learning and instructional learning educational materials.
-This is a place where over one thousands things could be done in a place all built around under one mission: “Take the World, Data, combine it with the people in the community and create a value”.
-A Library/an Educational Resource Center room contains collections of books, periodicals, magazines films and recorded music CDs for people to read, ,listen, view, borrow or refer to.
-A library is a place with shared books, and plenty of fun books, hopefully inculcating a lifelong love of reading, because reading makes people more thoughtful, better-informed and more productive members of a civil society.

N.B There is a wrong perception that libraries are just a place for books, but in the modern era, a Library/an Educational Resource Center, is a place where various educational information, and various categories of books, Audio-visual materials, Lectures, Authors, Discussions, Computers, various Educational Programs (workshops, Seminars etc), - collectively that make a tremendous resource in any given community (As defined by Linda Duttenhaver Los Angeles Public Librarian).
A Library/an Educational Resource Center acts as a public community center.

THE BEGINNING


CONCEPT PAPER FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES/ EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTERS PROJECT IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION OF AFRICA (GLRA) UNDER THE NAME OF JJAGGWE FOUNDATION PUBLIC LIBRARY-EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER
(JFPL-ERC):

Why Jjagwe Foundation has come to intervene through establishing Public Libraries/ Educational Resource Centers in the Great Lakes Region of Africa (GLRA) and elsewhere in Africa:

Based and piloted in Uganda then later to cover the Great Lakes’ region. In Uganda the recent (2012) release of final annual results of Primary Leaving Examinations for Primary Seven pupils (PLE), Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) for Senior Four (S4) and those of Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) for Senior Six (S6) students shows low performance. The results are released by the Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB). There is very drastic number of school drop-outs from most educational institutions in Uganda. This is caused by a number of factors, among them: lack of available learning materials; poor or low access to sources of text book information and; computer services in most educational institutions in Uganda. This is on top of other structural set-backs.

In 2012, a sample survey carried out revealed the following: In 1996 a total of 1,700,000 pupils were enrolled in Primary One (PI) class. After a period of seven years, only 560,000 were able to register for Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE). Of the 560,000 only 540,000 joined senior level schools. This shows that 1,200,000 to have dropped out from schools for the last seven years (1996-2012).
560,000 were admitted for SI in 2007 but at the end of the four years of study only around 250,000 were able to complete for their senior four (4) in 2010. A total of 198,000 were admitted for Higher Secondary Education (S5-S6). By the end of their two's years' studies, only 111,000 were able to register for their UACE. 109,000 were able to successfully complete their studies to join Tertiary Learning institutions.  In a nutshell, from 1996 to 2012 those who started Primary One, only 109,000 were able to successfully complete their education circle of twelve years, leaving a drop-out of over 1,600,000 students!



Jjaggwe Foundation, advocates the following as one of the solutions to adopt: Register Jjaggwe Foundation as a non-profit and non-partisan entity; invest in Vocational-Technical institutes and; establishment of both the traditional and Digital Libraries synergy to solve one of the major challenges of Education in the Great Lakes Region of Africa (GLRA).

Advantages of Digital Libraries’ establishment:
i) Easier to locate desired information.
ii) The information is always available and accessible unlike in traditional Libraries where books can be borrowed out or destroyed by users.
iii) Enable students and other users have access to information that improves on their skills.
iv)Provision of variety and choices in form of: journals, magazines and so on to the users.