Although school libraries are important resource centres that support curriculum delivery
and important pedagogical matters, it is disturbing that, in South Africa, only a minority …

Types of educational information needed by learners, their level of access and librarians'
supportive roles in learning are pertinent to the attainment of quality education. This study …

The study examined the Internet-based information behaviour of high school learners in the
Ashanti region of Ghana. It looked into the online information needs of learners, how they …

Well-designed and well-planned library school programmes and services are essential to
improve the development of reading and information literacy skills, particularly of the …

Despite recent achievements by the South African government in enhancing the provision of
access to education, the quality of educational information access with regards to the …

The existing research claims that information-handling skills do not receive the necessary
attention in some South African secondary schools, even though they are recommended by …

Owing to uneven resource-provisioning during the apartheid era, dysfunctional library
facilities are a major concern in the majority of South African schools. Since only 7% of state …

School-based management has become a common global trend within the educational
sphere, with institutional autonomy as the major educational reform. Post-apartheid …

Given the importance of the ability to read, learners must have access to books in schools.
The lack of functional school libraries in South Africa, especially in primary schools, is to the …

Since 1994, policy-driven research in South Africa led by the Department of Education (DoE)
and Library Information Sciences (LIS) in resource-poor schools has focused on the …