International Journal of Academic Library and Information Science
 

Vol. 6(6), pp. 157–162, September, 2018. 

ISSN: 2360-7858

DOI: 10.14662/IJALIS2018.050

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This is an off-shoot of a paper presented at the National Library of Nigeria Readership Promotion Campaign programme. It highlights the connection between the individual, lifelong learning and lifelong reading culture against the imperatives of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 4. Goal 4 talks about an “Effective Learning in a safe environment” and how that affects the individual’s capacity to sustain a lifelong learning and the promotion of a sustained reading culture. The paper is theoretical and reviews the relevant literature on the variables.  It concludes that there is a nexus between a reading culture and the characteristics of a safe environment comprising the actions or inactions of the key stakeholders which includes Government, parents, the schools, teachers, authors, publishers and others. It recommends, amongst others, that it is majorly the responsibility of Government to make the environment safe and inclusive for all by providing functional public libraries in all the Local Government Headquarters, support writers, publishers, guarantee security, economic and guarantee empowerment opportunities.

Keywords: individual, lifelong learning and lifelong reading culture, United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 4, Effective Learning

Cite This Article As: Ahiauzu, B.E., Oladipupo, R. (2018). CONNECTING THE INDIVIDUAL TO LIFELONG AND LIFE-WIDE READING CULTURE IN NIGERIA: THE IMPERATIVES OF THE UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL 4. Inter. J. Acad. Lib. Info. Sci. 6(6): 157-162