Abstract:
The paper reviewed the role academic libraries play in peace-education and socio-economic
growth in Nigeria. The inability to access and use the necessary information resources contained
in the academic library often results in conflicts, antagonisms and a lack of peaceful coexistence
which have always worked against individual and societal growth. The main aim of establishing
an academic library is to provide library services to scholars, researchers, students, parents,
academic institutions and the general public. The paper reviewed the academic library as a
decisive role which providing access to research-based and filtered information that supports a
long or short-term process of reforming societies and harmonizing conflict in the society via
peace education initiatives. Through the review of scholarly literature, this paper showed the
academic library as a metaphor for information provision that enhances peace-education and
socioeconomic growth. It established that the academic libraries gather, store, organize and
disseminate relevant, viable and necessary information that promotes and supports peace education and socioeconomic growth. It was recommended among others that the Library
management and the government authority should provide adequate funds for the smooth
running of libraries as well as change the poor attitude and political willpower toward education
and research.
