Title: Ethical Issues and Competitive intelligence in Public Libraries Management
Author(s): Samuel Olu Adeyoyin
Publication Year: 2023; Volume 18, Issue 3, pages 48-58

This article reviewed ethical issues and competitive intelligence in public libraries management. Ethical issues revolve around what is and is not allowable in terms of competitive intelligence practitioners' activity. Competitive intelligence is the action of defining, gathering, analyzing, and distributing intelligence about products, customers, competitors, and any aspect of the environment needed to support executives and managers in making strategic competitive intelligence for an organization. The researcher adopted narrative system of literature review. Narrative review provides a broad overview of a topic from selected literature, summarises and synthesises key points. This paper discussed ethical considerations that surround the application of competitive intelligence in public libraries management system. Scholarly articles on ethical issues and competitive intelligence were reviewed alongside public libraries management system. The literature reviewed showed that there is a correlation between the ethical issues and application of competitive intelligence in public libraries. The author concluded that public library managers in Nigeria should as a matter of urgency learn how to competitively harness information ethically and strife towards enhancing their role as public learning centre, performing their functions as enshrined in the Act that established them.