Abstract:
This paper focused on continuous education and training of librarians for effective service delivery to library users. Continuous education and training is essential for all professions and it is absolutely important in the information environment where rapid changes brought about by the emergence of ICT is altering the scope, knowledge base, and methodology of the profession. Continuous education is the formal or informal education given to librarians geared towards building on and updating previously acquired knowledge, skills and attitudes with a view to meeting up with emerging trends and practices in the profession. Training is the formal and structured programme given to librarians that is aimed at enhancing their job related skills, knowledge base and proficiency on the job. This paper examined the concept of continuous education and training, methods of continuous education and training, the importance of continues education and training and the challenges of continuous education and training. It was concluded that Librarians through which information services are rendered to the academic community needs to be continuously trained to meet up with the advancement in information delivery services and practices especially in this information and communication era. Among the recommendation made was that library management should institute continuous education and training programmes as this will enhance the proficiency of the librarian in information service delivery. |
