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eblip-30235	Friday, Jerry; Sawyer-George, Oyinkepreye	Practice of Infopreneurship by Librarians in Public University Libraries in South-South Nigeria	2023.0		.htm	text/html	9706	433	29	For instance, research conducted in Botswana by Ocholla (1998; 1999) reveal several reasons for engaging in infopreneurship, including:   ·        decline of resources to sustain wage employment in the public and private sector, ·        increase in unemployment calling for self-employment, ·        dead-end jobs retarding professional and career growth, ·        the inability of existing information provision centers to provide information services needed and increased demand for specialized information services, ·        the willingness of information consumers to pay for consultancy services and recognition that information is a commodity that can create wealth, ·        acceptance that information is power necessary for individuals and firms to stay in the market and to keep the competition off-balance, ·        interest in self-employment, ·        inadequacy of incomes which force income earners to sell skills and knowledge for additional earnings, ·        social change witnessed in the creation of small businesses, ·        encouragement by entrepreneurs who buy expertise, hire consultants and avoid obligations for hiring staff on a long-term basis, ·        increased need for proper information management, and ·        size and complexity of the information industry.   On the whole, findings from a study by Ivwurie and Ocholla (2016) indicate that lack of business experience and required mentorship, difficult legal registration process, high cost of office space, unpleasant behavior and poor attitudes of information consumers regarding payment for services, high rate of non-professionals involved in infopreneurship, irregularities in the quality of information products and services and absence of standardized professional ethics and pricing for information services as some of the barriers to operating infopreneurship in a developing economy.  	cache/eblip-30235.htm	txt/eblip-30235.txt