Library and Information Science Education: Panacea to Restiveness and Roadmap to National Development

摘要

Education provides people with basic knowledge, skill and attitude. These would help to improve the quality of life through increased capabilities, assets and activities. Every education is relevant in a particular nation/society/community. This implies that education should be indigenous. Where education does not impact its environment, the society will be plagued with restiveness, militancy, corruption, religious cris es, insecurity, unemployment and recession. Nigeria National policy on education advocates self-reliance. Self-reliance means one doing things for one’s self rather than depending on having things done for one. It does not mean that individuals do not need assistance. It simply means that the assistance required is to ensure that it places one in a position of better care for one’s self. Self-reliance makes one have the ability and capacity to maximize one’s effort to earn sustainable living. Self-reliance makes one to have problem-solving ability. Unnecessary or over dependence dulls character of an individual and creates social dysfunctions. Library and information science, a discipline of multi relevance builds the professionals to be self-reliant, which impacts positively in the society. Hence the paper proffers how Library and Information Science education stands as panacea to the restiveness in Nigeria.