Book production and publishing in Nigeria

Abstract

Publishing has often been regarded as the bedrock of librarianship. The soundness of this belief requires no argument because the publisher and the librarian continually play complementary roles in the provision of materials for the dissemination of information to the public. While the publisher is mainly involved at the earlier stages of the technical professional production of books and other information materials, the librarian has the singular duty of making sure that these materials, in addition to the information contained in them, are made available to readers. In other words, if the publisher does not play his or her part, the librarian may not have the materials necessary for the performance of his or her duties and if the librarian fails in a professional role, the single, major means by which the publishers' output gets to the largest number of population is lost. Thus, the professional roles of the publisher and the librarian are closely related and interdependent.

Citation

Iwe, J.I. (1990), "Book production and publishing in Nigeria", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 42 No. 6, pp. 189-197. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb051174