“…Many empirical studies relate the school library to students' academic success, development of life-long skills and nation building (Abdulsalami, Okezie, & Agbo, 2013;Juchnevic, 2014;Omeluzor, Bamidele, Ukangwa & Amadi, 2013), school libraries appear to be undervalued and teacher librarians have to demonstrate their worth to principals and the wider school community in order to receive support. In addition, school libraries are often among the first areas in schools to lose support when principals and other administrators are faced with decisions about where to invest their shrinking budgets (Massey, DiScala, Weeks, Barlow, & Kodama, 2016;Mokhtar & Majid, 2005). This situation has resulted in reduced access to information resources and services for students who have few options beyond the school library.…”