Salisu Dahiru, PhD
Dwindling job opportunities, innovations and latest technological advancement in information technologies necessitated the reinvigoration of Nigerian Library and Information Science (LIS) curriculum. This paper revisits the history of library and information science education in Nigeria and current state of LIS Curriculum in Nigerian universities. New entrepreneurship opportunities related to LIS profession and latest trends in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) were identified. The paper then identified gaps in its contents, considering the new LIS job related opportunities such as online publishing and online information consultancy. The paper further highlighted the new advancement in IT not properly covered in the contents of LIS curriculum such as cyber security, cloud computing, biometric technology, artificial intelligence, robotic technology, and Internet of Things (IoT). The paper recommended that LIS students should spent part of their Students’ Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) at information related businesses such as Internet café, publishing houses and IT consultancy organization to enable them not only acquire job related skills, but also job related entrepreneurship skills. The paper also recommended that National Universities’ Commission (NUC) in conjunction with curriculum developers should incorporate latest IT related technologies to the contents of ICT related courses such as “library automation” and “introduction to ICTs in libraries”.