Entrepreneurship Education for Socio-Economic Empowerment of Library and Information Science Students

Abstract

The research investigated entrepreneurship education for socio-economic empowerment of library and information science students of Federal Polytechnic Oko, Anambra state. Four research questions guided the study. This study adopted web-based survey research design using google form questionnaire. Respondents were 240 Library and information science (LIS) students of the Polytechnic. Findings of the study revealed the study concluded that entrepreneurship education for socio-economic empowerment is available for Library and information science (LIS) students in Federal Polytechnic Oko, Anambra State. the students identified developing grit for overcoming the hardship of unemployment as the highest potential impact of entrepreneurship education for the socio-economic empowerment of Library and information science students. The highest benefit identified by the students is that entrepreneurship promotes research and industrial development. Majority of the students also noted that entrepreneurship education promotes social change, initiate chain of support and wealth sharing. The challenges faced by LIS students in acquiring entrepreneurial skills were identified as raising the investment capital, changing nature of ICT among others. Based on the findings, the study recommends that entrepreneurship education should be properly harnessed and more positive moves should be made to improve entrepreneurship education for Library and information science students