The Nationwide Library of Nigeria has introduced that it has issued over 26,000 Worldwide Commonplace Guide Numbers (ISBN) because the starting of 2024.
It additionally revealed that authors and researchers can now receive ISBNs, Worldwide Commonplace Serial Numbers (ISSN), newspaper publication indexes, and different companies on-line.
Nationwide Librarian and Chief Government Officer of the Nationwide Library of Nigeria (NLN), Prof. Chinwe Anunobi, acknowledged this in an interview with reporters in Abuja to mark her three years in workplace.
The Guardian studies that whereas the ISBN is a novel 13-digit identifier assigned to books, eBooks, and different printed supplies, ISSN is an 8-digit identifier assigned to periodical publications similar to magazines, journals, newspapers, on-line publications, and serials.
The Nationwide Librarian mentioned the library has branches in 33 states of the Federation, together with the FCT, whereas Kebbi, Zamfara, Delta, and Anambra states are nonetheless working to offer land for the library to ascertain workplaces.
In accordance with her, Nigerians now not have to go to their workplaces, as they will get the wanted info from the web site of the NLN and its social media handles.
Prof. Anunobi revealed that the organisation has amassed a considerable repository of greater than 20,000 titles, which will be accessed by Nigerians.
Her phrases: “From January to September this 12 months, we’ve got issued greater than 26,000 ISBNs. You don’t want to return to the Nationwide Library of Nigeria to entry the knowledge you want. We now have a digital library. We additionally subscribed to ProQuest for e-books. We now have an On-line Public Entry Catalog. We’re doing a compendium of the numerical and alphabets in our indigenous languages, amongst different digital companies on the Nationwide Library of Nigeria.
“We’re utilizing automated processes. We now have over 20,000 titles deposited within the Nationwide Library of Nigeria from 36 states of the federation and the FCT.
“So, it has been three eventful years, and we hope to surmount our challenges, particularly as we’re receiving large help from the Honourable Minister of Schooling, Prof. Tahir Mamman.”
She added that regardless of the paucity of funds and different challenges confronted by the library, members of the workers stay undaunted in assembly the wants of Nigerians.
“The worldwide neighborhood and Synthetic Intelligence (AI) now consult with the Nationwide Library of Nigeria for info. If you’re searching for any info within the newspaper, you received’t must flip by pages. You’ll simply go to the index on our web site, and you’re going to get the knowledge so long as it was printed on-line by the newspaper,” she mentioned.
