Challenges of Entrepreneurship Education in Librarianship for Wealth Creation in Nigeria

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Abstract

A lot of potentials are envisaged of entrepreneurship education to prospective graduates of librarianship profession. It is therefore, behooves on prospective librarianship graduates to be exposed to the potentials in order to discover the opportunities within the landscape of librarianship and even beyond the profession for proper x-ray and maximum exploitation. This paper therefore, discusses the potential challenges of entrepreneurship education in librarianship for wealth creation in Nigeria beginning with the conceptual clarification of concepts such as entrepreneurship education, librarianship profession and wealth creation. The paper also identifies the purpose of entrepreneurship education in librarianship profession for wealth creation in Nigeria and discusses the requirements for entrepreneurship education in librarianship. It also discusses the potential challenges of entrepreneurship education in librarianship for wealth creation in Nigeria such as lack of empowerment for entrepreneurship education in librarianship, inadequate entrepreneurship and information and communication skills among others. Based on the identified and discusses potential challenges, the paper recommends that parents institutions should adequately empower library schools in building and equipping functional laboratories and workshops for effective entrepreneurship education in librarianship for wealth creation in Nigeria.

Keywords

Entrepreneurship Education, challenges, librarianship profession, wealth creation, Nigeria

DOI

10.0000/wijamssae.v1i1.6

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