Overview

Key facts:

The Library Archival And Information Studies programme is offered at the University Of Ibadan.
Library and Information Science is interpreted in its widest sense to include publishing and other means of acquiring, organising and disseminating information. Thus, programmes in the Department contain courses in publishing as foundations or background knowledge for librarians, archivists and information scientists. Thus far, no highly articulated professional /academic Master degree programme in publishing and copyright studies exists in any Nigerian university or other institutions of higher education in West Africa.
The Department has highly qualified staff made up of some of the leading professional and academic publishers, and information scholars in Africa. It has a state-of-art laboratory with ICTs, a Departmental library and other relevant and supporting facilities such as a well equipped Word Processing (W.P.), Desk Top Publishing (DTP), Scanning and Image generating sophisticated technological facilities.

Programme Structure

Formerly Institute of Librarianship was founded in 1959, under the auspices of the University Library. It became a member of the Faculty of Education in 1965 as the Department of Library Studies. It offers courses at the Sub-degree Diploma and Bachelor's degree levels in Library and Information Studies. It also offers Masters and higher programmes in Library, Publishing, Archives, Records Management and Information Studies.
It organizes workshops and vacation courses on librarianship, publishing, archives, records management and other related fields. It also undertakes consultancy and advisory services to universities, colleges of education and governmental and non-governmental organizations. The name of the department was broadened to be Department of Library, Archival and Information Studies with effect from 1986/87 session to reflect specializations within the Department.

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-08-21 00:00:00

Application deadline not specified.

Language

English

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Ibadan, Nigeria

Disciplines

Library Science Information Technology (IT)

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

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