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Proposing Adoption Of Entrepreneurial Skills For Enhanced Library Practice In Nigeria, Helen Nneka Okpala (Nee Eke) Mrs, Kingsley Tochukwu Ihejirika Mr.

Helen Nneka Eke-Okpala

The paper arises from the need to adopt entrepreneurial skills in library practice so as to enhance the traditional library practice in Nigeria. It has been observed that previous studies emphasize librarians becoming entrepreneurs with the knowledge of information skills thereby becoming infopreneurs or knowledge entrepreneurs as the case may be, but the current paper addresses library practice and how skills that make entrepreneurs thrive could be adopted in order to lift the image of the library and for librarians to see their work as their own business. The concept of entrepreneurship is discussed and issues regarding the matching of …