The Status of Broadcasting Libraries in Nigeria (A Study of Bauchi and Plateau States)

Abstract

A study of broadcasting libraries in Nigeria was carried out using the social survey method. Questionnaire, observation, and interview techniques were used to generate data from a representative sample of the nation's broadcast media stations (radio and television) located in the Bauchi and Plateau States of Nigeria. A general underdevelopment of the libraries was revealed. Staffing is inadequate in number and is also nonspecialized. Preservation and conservation practices are virtually non-existent. Whereas the content of the modest collection shows a rich resource base, collection development is near-crippled while mediagraphic control is done more by common-sense than by any system. State stations generally fared better than federal ones. Poor funding was identified as the major constraint in the general development of the libraries. Suggestions were offered towards revenue generation and the need for professional leadership in the country's broadcasting libraries.

Banishing Miracles: Politics and Policies of Religious Broadcasting in Nigeria

“…In that year, the British Broadcasting Corporation established an experimental monitoring station in Lagos; in 1935 a Radio Distribution Service was commissioned in Lagos, followed by another one in Ibadan in 1934 and Kano in 1944. It was only in 1951 that the Nigerian Broadcasting Service (NBS) was founded as an agency of colonial government (Akintunde 1995). This was the backbone of broadcasting infrastructure in Nigeria which expanded under a twotier government -federal and state -control and monopoly.…”