The Impact of Information Literacy Programme to Rural Communities in Lifelong Learning for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Malaysia

Abstract

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) listed Quality Education and lifelong learning as Goal 4 from intersectional and integrated 17 goals. Rural libraries have been serving the local communities since 2005 as lifelong learning agents that offer various services including Information Literacy Programme which will improve self-development skills in reading by the public on a daily basis. The frequencies of the programme done by rural libraries and facilities provided might influence and contribute to the lifelong learning process. sThis study will investigate the impact of the Information Literacy Programme done by rural libraries to the rural communities' lifelong learning. Closed-ended questionnaires will be distributed to 125 rural libraries in Northern Region of Malaysia as targeted respondents. Collected data will be analysed using SPSS and the findings will encourage stakeholders to upgrade and improve the services and facilities in rural libraries.