Retirement and the Challenges of Survival of Liberians: The Way forward:- Amogu, Uma K.

Abstract

Retirement is a critical and inevitable transition that every worker lives to face its reality Retirement marks the end of a paid employment. Retirees face a lot of challenges for survival. The purpose of the paper therefore is to look into the challenges of survival of librarians after retirement, especially in developing countries like Nigeria. The paper recognizes that librarians, like other professionals face enormous challenges after retirement and therefore need to plan for retirement. In the discussion, the paper looks at the concept of retirement, reasons for retirement, who are librarians and what they do, problems and challenges of survival of librarians. The paper identified entrepreneurship, information brokerage and contract job as possible ways of overcoming challenges of survival of librarians after retirement. .

 Keywords: Retirement, Challenges, Survival, Librarians