COMPLIANCE TO PUBLISHING STANDARDS BY PUBLISHERS FOR DEPOSITION OF INFORMATION RESOURCES IN NATIONAL LIBRARY NIGERIA

Abstract

This study looks at how publishers adhere to the National Library of Nigeria's publishing standards when depositing information resources there. The study's two main goals were to identify the types of published information resources deposited there and to determine how closely publishers adhere to those standards. Ninety-four (94) NLN staff members who worked at the ISBN/ISSN Desk were included in this study, which used a cross-sectional survey research design and quantitative research methodology. During the time of this study, there were officers in 32 branches (States and FCT2 Branch), as well as 1,144 registered publishers from NBN 2019 from the National Library and the worldwide standard and programme department. The complete NLN crew was employed, and the simple random sampling method and census sampling method were used to sample 291 publishers out of the total NLN personnel. Data were gathered using a self-created questionnaire, and presentation and analysis of the results were done using descriptive statistics. The study discovered that books (both local and foreign) and serials were the main forms of published information resources that were stored in NLN and preliminary pages, and that publishers highly conformed with the ISBN and ISSN standards. The study found that if publishers are motivated, compliance levels will be high, and it suggested that the NLN rewrite the legal deposit statute to incentivize publishers to deposit all of their works.

Keywords: Compliance, Information Resources, National Library of Nigeria, Publishers and Publishing Standards