International Journal of Academic Research in Education and Review

Vol. 9(8), pp. 324-330, November 2021

ISSN: 2360-7866

https://doi.org/10.14662/ijarer2021.465

 

Full Length Research

 

 

Influence of institutional Support and Legal Deposit Compliance in Nigeria

 

1Eddy-Ugorji, Deborah Chinwe and 2Prof. G. Alegbeleye

 

1Department of Information Resource Management, Babcock University, Ilishan Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria

2Department of Information Resource Management, Babcock University, Ilishan Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria

 

Accepted 30 October 2021

Abstract

Abstract: The study evaluated the Influence of institutional support and compliance with legal deposit law in Nigeria. The study adopted a survey design with a study population of four hundred and eighty-four (484) professional librarians, para-professional librarians and library officers working in the thirty-two (32) branches of the NLN and the headquarters in Abuja (NLN staff list April 2020), total enumeration was used because the population was very few. A structured and validated questionnaire was used for data collection. Data was analyzed using the SPSS software, frequency distribution and percentages. The findings revealed that the need for National Library of Nigeria to sustain institutional support in the aforementioned areas. Nonetheless, the result also suggests two critical areas of concern regarding institutional support namely insufficient funding (mean = 2.08) and lack of special allocation specifically to pursue enforcement of legal deposit (mean = 2.09).The study concludes that the Institutional support has a positive influence on legal deposit compliance. When NLN provides enabling support to librarians, there is strong tendency to improve legal deposit compliance. Institutional support is vital in improving legal deposit compliance with adequate planning and attention by management of NLN. The study recommended that the use of updated publishers’ catalogue and monthly legal deposit drive to publishing houses should be employed by NLN to monitor and ensure timely compliance, as the legal deposit copy is the only copy of a publication that is acceptable by court as an authentic copy in a case of copyright litigation.

 

Keywords: institutional support, compliance, legal deposit law in Nigeria

Paper type: research