Compliance to publishing standards by publishers for deposition of information resources in National Library of Nigeria

Abstract

This study examined the compliance to publishing standards by publishers for deposition of information resources in National Library of Nigeria (NLN), two objectives guided the study, to identify the type of published information resources deposited in National Library of Nigeria and find out the extent to which publishers comply with the publishing standards of National
Library of Nigeria. Quantitative research methodology was adopted and cross-sectional survey research design was used for the study, the population of this study comprised of ninety-four (94) NLN staff in thirty-one (31) state branches existed during this study in international standard and program department and legal deposit department and one thousand one hundred and forty-four (1,144) registered publishers. The entire population of NLN staff was used and two hundred and ninety-one (291) publishers were sampled, census sampling technique and simple random sampling technique were used. Self-developed questionnaire was used for data collection, descriptive statistics were used for data presentation and analysis. The study found out that books (Nigeriana and foreign) were the types of published information resources that are mostly deposited in NLN and preliminary pages was the publishing standard that publishers were highly complied with. The study concluded that there was a high level of compliance with the publishing standards by publishers and the study recommended that; the NLN should redesign the policy/legal deposit law in such a way that it will motivate/encourage the publishers to deposit all other published information resources to NLN and also the NLN should introduce/create a unit that will ensure full compliance with publishing standards before assigning any standard number to published information resources.