LEVERAGING SMART SCHOOL LIBRARIES TO ENHANCE EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: INNOVATION AND IMPACT

Abstract

The paper focuses on Leveraging Smart School Libraries to Enhance Early Childhood Education. Children at their tender ages need library information resources for their educational development. Emerging intelligent technologies are innovations in technologies, software, or applications that enable librarians to adequately prepare and present information content in an enticing way to users or learners, resulting in effective information service delivery. It pictured a smart library as a smart center in the school library that makes learning and other educational activities interactive. Speed reading software, Plotagon, and mathematics problem-solving software amongst others were identified as emerging intelligent technologies that can be used for smart school libraries. The paper acknowledged personalized instructions, enhanced learning resources, access to information as some of the benefits of smart school libraries in early childhood education. Recommendations were made on how to facilitate the incorporation and use of emerging intelligent technologies in school libraries