STANDARDIZATION AND SPECIFICATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL FACILITIES IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE PROGRAMME IN NIGERIA

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2007
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Ibrahim, Umar
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Tracing the development of library and information science education in Nigeria, the paper reveals the inadequacy of standards for library schools at both international and national levels. Reviewing the only Nigerian standard, tlie paper establishes, as reported by otfier scholars, the defects of the statidard and tlie consistent inadequacies in the product of the existing bachelor of library science (BLS) programme. In the light of this, the paper suppoits the timely call by the National Association of Library and Information Science Educators (NALISE) on the need to come up with more comprehensive Standards for library and information science schools in Nigeria Hence, the paper proposes for inclusion into the compressive standards to be prepared by the National Association of Library and Information Science Educators (NALISE) the types and quantities of instructional facilities each library school in tfie country should have for adequate knowledge creation, organization and dissemination
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STANDARDIZATION AND SPECIFICATION,, INSTRUCTIONAL FACILITIES,, LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE PROGRAMME,, NIGERIA,
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