Eze, S.G.N; Eze, Jacintha; C.U, Uzoigwe (2016)

Considering the need for women empowerment in our society these days and the fact that women play different important role in the advancement of the modern society, this paper goes to study the girls and women empowerment through open an distance learning with particular focus on the strategic role of the library. The objectives of the study are to find out the different library and information resources and services available in support of open and distance; extent of utilization of these resources by the women and girl users of the library; influence of this utilization on their academic performance; problem encountered by the libraries and strategies for curbing the problem toward enhancing open and distance learning for women and girls; hence empowering them. The study adopted descriptive survey method using women and girls students of the national open university of Nigeria as the study population. Multiple choice questionnaire was used to collect data while frequencies and mean scores were used to analyse the data presented in tables. Results and findings of the study will be detailed in the full research paper.