CHALLENGES IN THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE STUDENTS IN NIGERIAN

CHALLENGES IN THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE STUDENTS IN NIGERIAN

ABSTRACT

This project work is on the challenges in training and education of library and information science professionals with a particular case of those in IMSU and FPNO library school. The objectives of this include finding out the challenges of librarianship profession. Also discover the perception of the profession by the general public and also recommend on how he identified problems could be solved. The research design of this work was drawn, procedure for data collection and the method of data analysis. At the end, summary of the finding was stated, where the total number administered and the return rate which include valid and invalid number. Under the conclusion, the different finding was stated under the, the different numbers of objectives. Finally, the recommendation was made which include that, the parent institution and commissioner of education should help to finance the library to enable the profession grow. Libraries should try as much as possible to ensure that a good public relation programme is implemented in many ways to explain, interpret and defined what librarianship is and why it should continue to exist.