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.