October 2016

Developing and implementing entrepreneurship curriculum in Nigerian library and information science programmes

This paper proposes a theoretical approach to the development and implementation of an entrepreneurship curriculum in LIS.  It observes that the introduction of entrepreneurship education in Nigerian universities following a Presidential directive in 2004 was a laudable step even as facilities for skills acquisition are generally lacking in most institutions. Following the laudable intentions of the general studies...

Author(s): Innocent I. Ekoja and Alice O. Odu

October 2016

Effect of English Language proficiency on students’ performance in cataloguing and classification courses in polytechnic - based library schools in Nigeria

The study investigates the effect of English Language proficiency on student's performance in cataloguing and classification courses in polytechnic-based library schools in Nigeria. This is against the background of the phobia the students have for cataloguing and classification. Descriptive survey method was adopted while a questionnaire, English Language proficiency test and cataloguing and classification test...

Author(s): Jimoh Rafiu and Kenneth Ivo Ngozi Nwalo