Reflections on prospects of enterpreneurial librarianship in Nigeria

Abstract

This paper conceptualizes entrepreneurial librarianship. It presents the librarian as an enterpreneur, that is able to initiate or provide information services and products to meet user’s need in new and creative ways; if given the right kind of training/education that is capable of stimulating enterpreneurial spirit with a view to creating innovation or original thinking in terms of information resource use and development taking into consideration the competitive environment of infomation delivery visa viz the competition pose by Google, Amazon, Wikipedia and Myspace. It highlight necessary ingredients required for every librarian who intends to be innovative and fit into the global information service equilibrium, such as risk taking, collaboration, change initiators, reading outside the profession and constant assessment with international best practices. Key business prospects in enterpreneurial librarianship were presented.

Keywords: Innovation, Enterpreneurial, Liabrarianship, Nigeria, Information service