LIBRARY SIGNAGE AND INFORMATION GRAPHICS: A COMMUNICATION TOOL FOR LIBRARY USERS Dr. Edeama O. Onwuchekwa Cite: Onwuchekwa, E. O. (2020). Library Signage and Information Graphics: A Communication Tool for Library Users. In Tella, A. (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Digital Devices for Inclusivity and Engagement in Libraries (pp. 231-237). IGI Global. http://doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-9034-7.ch011 Abstract Libraries are gradually becoming spaces for discovery, innovation and community empowerment by catering to the various needs of the public. To harness the unlimited resources in the library, library digital signage is the perfect tool to help transform old buildings and spaces into a place of collaboration and innovation. Since it’s a content-centric solution at its core, digital signs can go beyond looping a series of pictures. It’s an intelligent tool that can tailor-fit content relative to the audience, location, time of the day and even process. This chapter will address the different roles of signages and buttress the fact that Digital signage can play a major role in this communication process in addition to demonstrating a “green” environment for library patrons. Graphic Information can be displayed to the public in meeting rooms, at the front desk, in vestibules or cafeterias/cafes. The messaging can range from programs being held at the library to public service announcements to emergency messaging and so much more. There is no limit to the information that a library signage can convey to its users. Introduction Recently, Informational graphics and signages are among the most basic, and at the same time most indispensable, forms of library instruction and communication. Like other media employed to educate the library user, they derive their importance and usefulness from the needs that users experience as they search for information. Signages and information graphics include and are not limited to signs that identify individual areas and rooms, as well as signs that identify the objects and applications found in these rooms. There are a variety of function to what information the signages can communicate the library users. For example, an informational signage need not only tell users about things that they are