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ABSTRACT

This paper examined the school library’s prospects and roles in the promotion of public health. A school library is a library whose primary function is to cover information. The school library plays a key role in the cultural and social life of the school. It can be a central point for engagement with all kinds of information about public health can be assessed. Public health benefits everyone, young and old, rich and poor, healthy and unhealthy, millions at a time, and in ways that ensure health beyond what any of us alone can accomplish. The paper summarized that school libraries are employed for health education and public health services. And that an iCentre can help as the central facility within the school library where information, technology, learning and teaching needs are supported by qualified information and technology specialists. School libraries are adapting the physical and virtual spaces to encourage traditional creative behaviour while also accommodating new forms of practice to enhance public health implications and remedies in hybrid information settings. One of the recommendations made was that the government should provide health professionals and the general public with equal access to health information.