GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT

History is the study of the past as well as memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation and interpretation of information about these past events. The world today is a knowledge society, everyone is interested in getting what has been discovered, how to use the discoveries to solve day-to-day problems, and how to share or communicate the results for furtherance of knowledge. Hence, library historiography deals with the writing, presentation and interpretation of the past of librarianship. The past is central and often fundamental part of the present and future. Libraries are social institutions created to conserve knowledge, preserve the cultural heritage, provide information, undergird and underpin education and research; and to serve as fountains of recreation. Today, the library is conceived not as an archive, but as the foyer of living ideas-ideas that permeate and animate all aspects of life. The librarians themselves are veritable mediators between man and a vast array of information resources, produced through generations. Their primary objective is to maximize the social utility of these records of human culture for the benefit of the society. This paper is seek to examine how the past knowledge of librarianship can aid the librarians to effectively manage the library via function of planning, organizing, coordinating, directing, controlling and supervising the library and its patrons for the total actualization of the aim, objective and purpose of librarianship. Furthermore, the following recommendations are made; proper collection development be put in place and fully implemented, regular updates of resources and upgrading of the reference section of the library, proper mechanism be put in place for adequate management to the libraries and urgent need for digitalization of the library.

KEYWORDS: Past, event, knowledge, management, librarians and library