Home | Blog | Gallery | Contact NLA | Member Login
Quick Facts
|
Region Served
|
Nigeria
|
||
|---|---|---|---|
|
Abbreviation
|
NLA
|
||
|
Established
|
1962
|
||
|
Type
|
Professional Association
|
||
|
|
Non-profit
|
||
|
Headquarters
|
Abuja, Nigeria
|
||
|
Authority
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
President
|
Prof. Innocent Isah Ekoja
|
||
|
Chapters
|
37
|
||
|
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
Members
|
5,900
|
||
|
Website
|
|||
Prior to its independence, the Nigerian Division within WALA had laid the foundation for a professional association, which worked actively to influence the Nigerian Government to promote library development in the country. To date, it has to its credit the following notable achievements:
- The Nigerian Division of WALA successfully made a proposal for a National Library Policy, which became the blueprint for early library development and led to the inauguration of the Library Advisory Committee in 1958. This Committee became the forum for the discussion of library development at the national level and gave advice on library matters and conditions of service for librarians in the Federal Civil Service.
- The Nigerian Library Association made representation to Government for the establishment of the National Library of Nigeria and the National Library Act of 1962.
- The Association was instrumental in securing government support for the professional education and training of library personnel leading to the establishment of the Institute of Librarianship at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan.
- The promulgation of the Librarians’ (Registration, etc) Council of Nigeria (LRCN) Decree in June 1995 and the subsequent inauguration of the Council by the Honourable Minister of Education, Professor Borishade on 28th May, 2002.
- The Association successfully influenced the government in inaugurating the LRCN in May, 2002 to enable it perform its stipulated functions of regulating the practice of the Library and Information profession in the country.
- Today, the NLA has a chapter in each State as well as the Federal Capital Territory. Each Similarly, the Association has thirteen registered subject and professional sections, each looking after its own interest group.
- The NLA has successfully mobilized its members to be aware of the global changes in the library and information sector by encouraging training and retraining in Information and Communication Technology
- The NLA has its own chairman and local administration.
Nigerian Library Association
c/o National Library of Nigeria HQ, Sanusi Dantata House, (1st flr room 5) CBD, Abuja.
President: 08037064438 | National Secretary: 08055555787, 08037024569 | National PRO: 08035527389
c/o National Library of Nigeria HQ, Sanusi Dantata House, (1st flr room 5) CBD, Abuja.
President: 08037064438 | National Secretary: 08055555787, 08037024569 | National PRO: 08035527389
Copyright © 2020 Nigerian Library Association. All rights reserved.
Website Designed and Developed by David Ofili
Managed by NLA Digital Communications Team