Entrepreneurship Opportunities for Library and Information Science (LIS) Professionals: A Remedy for graduate unemployment in Nigeria Entrepreneurship Opportunities for Library and Information Science (LIS) Professionals: A Remedy for graduate unemployment in Nigeria

Abstract

The paper Entrepreneurship Opportunities for Library and Information Science (LIS) Professionals: A Remedy for graduate unemployment in Nigeria unveils some of the entrepreneurship opportunities that could help LIS graduates to remain gainfully employed in the faces of unemployment especially in Nigeria. Entrepreneurship has become an integral component of all levels education and now acts as catalysts of transformation. The major highlights of the paper includes: Entrepreneurship as a concept, entrepreneurship education, benefits of entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurship education available to library and information science graduates in Nigeria and factors limiting the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education in Nigerian library schools. The paper argued that entrepreneurship education in library and information science will not deliver its dividends if efforts are not made to ensure that the programme is practical oriented and it will be difficult for graduates of library and information science to secure self-employment. The paper recommends, among other things, that workshops and laboratories in Nigerian library schools be upgraded to acceptable standard with necessary facilities put in place, re-orientation of students, acquisition of ICT skills by lecturers and retraining of lecturers in library schools on entrepreneurship. The methodology of the paper is non-empirical