ICT

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

The Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) program prepares students for Labour Markets, and it has become an innovative phenomenon in human resource development and training in Nigeria.
The Library Profession, like other professions is dynamic. This dynamism is in response to Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
With the introduction of ICTs into the field of Library and Information Science (LIS), it has become imperative that LIS practitioners possess the skill needed to function effectively in an ICT environment.
No society can achieve meaningful progress without encouraging its youth to acquire necessary practical skills. Such skills enable them to harness available resources to meet the needs of society. It is against this BACKGROUND that SIWES, otherwise referred to as Industrial Training (IT), was introduced in Nigerian tertiary institutions.
SIWES is a skill development programme designed to prepare students of Universities, Polytechnics/ Monotechnics, and College of Educations for transition from the college environment to work. Akerejola (2008), Oyedele (1990) state that work experience is an educational program in which students participate in work activities while attending school. This work experience program gives students the opportunity to be part of an actual work situation outside the classroom.