Libraries supporting national development goals in Namibia

Ellen Ndeshi Namhila · Ritva Niskala

16 citations0/0 files storedIFLA Journal

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Library Science and Administration Library Science and Information Information Science and Libraries

Abstract

The paper describes the strategy of the Namibia Library and Archives Service (NLAS) to transform the public/community library network. The opportunity to transform the library network emerged when the Namibian education sector received major funding to develop its strategic framework for the implementation of education sector requirements for Vision 2030, Namibia’s development strategy. In 2002 the Ministry of Education invited the World Bank to assist in developing strategies that will overcome the challenges in the performance of the education sector. Although the library network is part of the mandate of the Ministry of Education, the World Bank team did not identify libraries as a critical area to be developed but recommended leaving the countrywide library network out of the education sector reform. The paper describes the strategy that NLAS applied to get the library sector accepted into the Education and Training Sector Improvement Programme (ETSIP) and to secure funding for a countrywide library sector turn-around strategy, changing the focus of public/community libraries from recreational reading to institutions supporting education, research, economic empowerment and everyday information needs.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 16 citations exist upstream.

References

2001The Public Library Service 2003Measuring Outcomes: Applying Cost-Benefit Analysis to Middle-Sized and Smaller Public Libraries.

Cited by

2015New perspectives on community library development in Africa 2020Data challenges for public libraries: African perspectives and the social context of knowledge 2021Factors that influence attitudes to and perceptions of public libraries in Namibia: user experiences and non-user attitudes 2014Applying an ecological model for library development to build literacy in rural Ethiopian Communities 2022What Makes an Ideal Partner? African Libraries and Neoliberal Discourses in International Development 2017Who was to Blame? The Genealogy of the “Anglo-American” National Library Service Model 2022Library Contributions to Achievement of Namibia Vision 2030 2015The role of community libraries in the society: The case of Maxwilili community library

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.