Educating and Professionalizing the 21st Century Nigerian Cataloguer: Issues and Trends

This study looks at the issues that cataloguers face in terms of education and professionalization as they perform librarianship in the twenty-first century. The paper concerns cataloguer education and professional development. It emphasizes the deficiencies in their library school training as well as the need of cataloguing and classification in the library school curriculum. In order to tackle the demands of the twenty-first century job, cataloguers should guarantee that they enhance their skills and abilities, in addition to being comfortable with technology, by enrolling in continuing education.

Keywords: Cataloguer; Issues; Professional development; Trends; Upskilling