The Needs and Prospects of Community Information Service Personnel for Societal Development in Nigeria
Keywords:
Information Service, Personnel, Upskilling, Need of Upskilling, Community, Prospects of Upskilling, Community DevelopmentAbstract
The paper discusses the needs and prospects of up-skilling community information service personnel for societal development in Nigeria. The burning issues that were x-rayed in this paper include information services, upskilling the needs; of the community, prospects of community information services and place of information services personnel in societal development. The paper concludes among other things that: the management of both public and private information services existing in Nigeria communities should endeavour to upskill their information delivery personnel regularly to update their knowledge, skills and competencies to achieve the 21st-century information services of their staff and the potential users’ needs. The researchers suggest that the government should make sure that public libraries in Nigeria are adequately funded to achieve the desired information purposes in society; workshops, seminars and conferences should be constantly organized for training and retraining of information personnel to enable them to stay agile, competent, innovative and responsive to the changes in their jobs.