Abstract:
Social media is currently changing the terrain in our day-to-day communication and interaction
in our society and organizations. Currently, many library graduates are becoming “netizens” and
digital natives who are no longer comfortable with the conventional traditional library education
after graduation. In the same vein, there is this driving zeal of these new breed librarians to
become job creators and no longer job seekers especially after graduation, hence, the need for
adopting entrepreneurship stance such as the introduction of “Infopreneur” to their library
education. This is because, joblessness has been on the increase for so many years. Library
graduates are roaming the street jobless and many are found idle. This paper considers the
adoption of social media and infopreneurship skills to be acquired by our graduating students so
as to mitigate the unemployment problems of library graduates in Nigeria. The paper also
explored several existing body of knowledge that can do this, highlighted ways of transforming
library education to gainful employment. It further stated the ways in which social media and
infopreneurship can be eventful in Nigeria and concluded that the Nigerian education planners
should try to encourage and expand the social media and infopreneurship education in our
universities to help the outcoming graduates to provide jobs for themselves and others.
