...Clement Ola Adekoya; Joseph Kehinde Fasae Purpose Mentorship is crucial to the success and accomplishment of librarianship in the contemporary era. This paper aims to investigate the need for mentorship and challenges besetting mentorship in librarianship with specific focus on academic libraries...

... to be carried forward for the sake of the profession. That makes the value of the older worker critical for the continuance of information accessibility and curation for a global society needing ethical gatekeepers going forward. Other options to maintain value for older workers might be through mentorship...