Productivity of journals which published Nigerian library literature, 1910-1985

Abstract

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-US">The productivity of journals which published articles on librarianship in Nigeria from 1910-1985 is studied to determine the number of articles published by each journal, the number of journals that were published in Nigeria and outside Nigeria, the core productive journals that published articles on the literature, the language, subject and title dispersion of journals. The methods adopted were the frequency distribution, percentages and the graphical application of Bradford's law and Chi-square. The observation was that there were four core journals with respect to the Nigerian library literature, 14 (10%) journals were published in Nigeria, title dispersion of journals was low, articles were predominantly in English (99.7%). The dominant subject of the journals was librarianship (70.3%), the number of articles published in Nigerian based journals is higher than those published in foreign journals and that the difference is statistically significant.</span>