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    REVITALIZING ENTREPRENEURSHIP STUDIES IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION FOR JOB CREATION AND POVERTY ERADICATION IN NIGERIA
    (A PUBLICATION OF EBONYI STATE CHAPTER OF THE NIGERIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (NLA), 2021-06-18) ADAMU, MOHAMMED SABA (CLN, MNLA, CTN), DOGARA, LADAN (CLN), ABUBAKAR, FATI (CLN), AHMED, YABAGI (CLN)
    This paper examined revitalization of entrepreneurship studies in Library and Information Science (LIS) education for job creation and poverty eradication in Nigeria. Revitalization of entrepreneurship studies in LIS education that would be amenable to the profession is not only a necessity but mandatory if the prospective LIS graduates would be employers of labour rather than job seekers in a competitive 21st century. The introduction of entrepreneurship studies in Nigerian universities since 2004 is a laudable step despite the fact that facilities for skills acquisition are generally lacking in most institutions. In furtherance of this laudable intention, stakeholders in LIS have also seen the need for integrating entrepreneurship studies in LIS education which has recently led to the proposal for a course known as “Infopreneurship” to be included in LIS undergraduate education programme. Training of LIS students in entrepreneurship requires some skills such as information technology skills, information literacy skills, managerial skills and personal entrepreneurship skills. Opportunities for LIS professionals were also highlighted to include: book publishing, information brokerage, consultancy services, bookselling business, record management, indexing and abstracting services, system analyst, operation of business centres, cybercafé business, editorial services, authoring books, email publishing, web publishing, desktop publishing, establishing and maintaining libraries for organisations, compilation of directories, compilation of bibliographies etcetera. It is recommended that to make entrepreneurship studies attractive, government ought to create favourable environment in terms of infrastructure provision, funding and regulating interest rates on bank loans for interested graduates that would wish to be self-employed after graduation.
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    Availability, sufficiency and use of school library resources by students: a case study of Police Secondary School Library, Minna, Niger State, Nigeria
    (The Nigerian School Library Association., 2018-10-29) Mohammed Saba Adamu, J. Joel Kolo, Alice Adebisi & Fati Abubakar
    This study investigated the availability, sufficiency and use of library resources by secondary school students in Police Secondary School (PSS) Minna Library. The research design adopted for this study was descriptive survey research method. The population of the study consisted of Senior Secondary two (SS2) and Senior Secondary three (SS3). A total of eighty (80) copies of the questionnaire were distributed and seventy-seven (77) were returned and used. The instruments used for data collection were observation checklist containing items on availability of information resources and questionnaire containing items on sufficiency and use of information resources by students; factors militating against the use of information and strategies to enhance use of information resources. Data collected were analysed using frequencies and percentages. Findings showed that computer assisted instructional resources were not available and as such could not be determined whether sufficient or not, only few students make effective use of school library. The study recommended that computer assisted instructional resources should be acquire in the school library to enhance effective use of information resources in the school library.