A TOTAL of 21,809 pupils from primary and senior high schools in the Lower Manya Krobo District in the Eastern Region have benefited from the Mobile Library and Extension Services (MLS) of the Ghana Library Board (GLB).
The three-day outreach initiative was to give the beneficiary pupils and students from 43 primary schools, 29 junior high schools and 43 senior high schools access to reading and learning materials from the mobile van of the GLB.
Besides, the programme, which was implemented on a pilot basis, afforded the pupils and students the opportunity to learn the rudiments of the Internet and its applications.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic at the closing ceremony of the programme at Odumase-Krobo at the weekend, the Eastern Regional Librarian, Mr Guy Amartefio, said the exercise formed part of efforts by the GLB to provide effective public library services to deprived communities that did not have access to static libraries.
“It is the hope of GLB that such services will bring basic reading and learning materials closer to pupils and students in order to meet their information, educational, research and recreational needs,” he stated.
Mr Amartefio indicated that the MLS also sought to support teaching and learning in basic and senior high schools, especially those in rural and peri-urban communities and therefore appealed to the pupils and the students to take advantage of the programme to read wide to enable them to acquire knowledge to excel academically.
He pointed out that similar exercises had already been organised in communities in the Kwahu North and the Atiwa districts, both in the Eastern Region.
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