ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR SELF RELIANCE

Abstract

This paper examined the concept of entrepreneurship as the person who assumes the responsibility in risk taking for business venture or undertaking with the ultimate aim of making profit, and remain independent of his own. Entrepreneurship has been found and accepted worldwide as indispensable driver of skill, knowledge propeller and capacity driven when possessed, drives away poverty from the possessor – individual, family or nations worldwide. Thus entrepreneurs is a self-reliant, successful business-man or woman in his chosen field of business, trade, or venture undertaking. It is the backbone spirit and zeal of any great and developed nations like China, United States (US), and Japan to mention a few. This study further sees entrepreneurs as job-creators or providers, initiators of successful business men and women worldwide. Entrepreneurs channels their natural energies, talents, zeal and gifts towards the production of goods and services for exchange of monetary reward. The study therefore, concludes by stressing and recommending full adaptation and inclusion of entrepreneurial subjects into library and information technology curriculum for the training and education of upcoming graduates of the Federal Technology, Minna, as a right step in the right direction and compliance to the National Universities Commission (NUC) mandates and clarion call.