LEGAL DEPOSIT COLLECTIONS IN NIGERIS A MODEL FOR ANGLOPHONE AFRICAN COUNTRIES

Abstract

Abstract: Ideally Legal Deposit Collection responsibility belongs to the National Library of any country. The
peculiar circumstances which led to Ibadan University Library being a depository for al l the publications
issued in Nigeria are outlined, the problems encountered analyzed and the advantages to both academic
community and the whole country are outlined. Reasons for the proliferation of Publications laws in the
various States of the country are also examined and the apparent tendency that the practice in Nigeria
has become the model for Anglophone African countries is reviewed.