Relevance of Competitive Intelligence (CI) in library services in Nigeria

Abstract

Librarians' work environment is becoming challenging and at the same time exciting. The constant change in the organizational, technological and information environment is becoming increasingly complex thereby placing a demand on librarians to keep up with new technologies and systems, new information sources, new forms of information and new tasks and roles. They have to constantly justify themselves and their services and demonstrate their value to the parent institution. This paper looks at the relevance of competitive intelligence on the improvement of library services in Nigeria in accordance with one of the seven sins of library managers. The paper attempts to study relevance of competitive intelligence in library services in Nigeria and proffer means librarians need to take for their services to flourish.