Career development: follow-up studies of former graduate students of the Deparment of Library and Archival Studies University of Ghana, 1991/1992 to 1996/1997

An analysis of the library and information science (LIS) job market in South Africa

“…Rugambwa 1998;Marcum 1997;Loughridge, Oates & Speight 1996;Schumm 1994;Quarmby, Willet & Wood 1999;. Over the past twenty-five years, follow-up studies of graduates for curriculum review have been conducted by Anadiran (1988) in Nigeria; Rosenberg (1989Rosenberg ( , 1994 in Kenya; Alemna ( , 1999 and Kisiedu (1993) in Ghana; Rugambwa (1998) in Ethiopia; Aina and Moahi (1999) in Botswana; Lutwana and Kigongo-Bukenya (2004) in Uganda;van Aswegen (1997);Ocholla (2001), Stilwell (2004) and Shongwe and Ocholla (2011) in South Africa. In addition to follow-up studies, the assessment of LIS-related job advertisements in newspapers has also received some attention in the past (e.g.…”